TY - BOOK AU - Smadja,Ruben TI - The Awkward Age PY - 2014///. N1 - 18 N2 - Recent, the notion of awkward age has been introduced into contemporary psychopedagogical writing to describe a clinical situation frequently observed in young adolescents. First studied by neuro-cognitivists, psychoanalysts specialized in adolescence have developed the idea of the working of silliness set up as a defense mechanism before the threat of the loss of infantile positions inherent to adolescence, a sort of emergency recourse when the actual possibilities of the child to deal with his emotional turmoil are momentarily or more lastingly overwhelmed UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-enfances-et-psy-2014-2-page-28?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -