de Kernier, Nathalie <br/><br/>
Heroic Murder and Hybrid Identity in Adolescence 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The hero in adolescence appears regularly in clinical practice and in literature. The infans seems to be a necessary figuration of the adolescent’s hybrid identity, a necessary passage for getting free of its control. This breaking free implies a symbolic, and particularly heroic, murder. The passage to the act should be understood as a quest for the symbolization of this murder.