Matha, Catherine <br/><br/>
Projection and masochism in the phobia of thinking in adolescence 

 -  2023.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article examines the metapsychological foundations of the phobia of thinking, below or beyond the diversity of the clinical pictures presented in the psychopathology of adolescence. The function of projection and its relationship with masochism in the activity of thinking, the part played by the identificatory changes of adolescence, are more particularly examined to apprehend the singular manifestations of the phobia of thinking in therapeutic work and in the clinic.The failure of projection, preventing the adolescent from constituting a phobic object on the outside, forces him to attack his activity of thinking, both because it is the place of pain and because it has the power to designate internal (identificatory) objects carrying threat. But the danger does not only come from the power attributed to these identificatory figures on the subject, it concerns the activity of thinking itself. As it exercises a power of connection and association of the representations linked to these identificatory figures, the activity of thinking becomes threatening because likely to carry out the incestuous, murderous or mortal threat. This is the supported hypothesis.