Gonzalès, Jean-Pierre

Adolescence: Self-deconstructing in order to self-construct - 2021.


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Starting from an example of psychoanalytic family therapy, the author describes the weight of the transgenerational secret as a disorganizing and inhibitory factor in the adolescent’s process of psychic and physical separation from his family. The parents’ infantile, fixed and kept in these circumstances by the father’s secret, gradually unwinds itself through the therapeutic process (family group transference and analyst countertransference) until it once again finds a creative dynamic. Accordingly, the elaborative resumption of “enigmatic messages” through the free circulation of family fantasies restores security and reorganizes the family group space, and the place and role of each person.