TY - BOOK AU - Houssier,Florian TI - Parricidal Wishes and Devouring Fantasies PY - 2013///. N1 - 33 N2 - Two psychic conflicts traverse the adolescent developmental process: the first concerns the post-pubescent specificity of incestuous desires and the capacity to overcome them through an opening to the complementarity of the sexes. The second concerns the necessary de-idealization of the pre-oedipal parent-figure of the same sex. Using excerpts from psychotherapy with an adolescent "John," we explore the father-son bond in adolescence and the ambivalent fantasies brought into play for both father and son in oedipal and pre-oedipal modes, notably including fantasies of devouring. These fantasies interweave with the de-idealization of the father figure, contributing to the origination of both parricidal and matricidal wishes in the adolescent UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-la-psychiatrie-de-l-enfant-2012-2-page-557?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -