L'arc expérientiel de l'adolescence: Esquive, combine, embrouille, carapace et étincelle...

Abstract

When teenagers leave childhood, they experience a variety of new hardships in public. Their perspective changes: the public space becomes concrete and thus pregnant in their existence. The space between the recreational part of childhood and the public field needs to be questioned as it helps to understand the balance found or not by teenagers between the recreational sphere to which they remain attached and the generalizing dimension of the public field where they plan to assert themselves. Crossing the line between a close, familiar environment and the public field provides a whole array of outstanding experiences: dodging, scheming, muddling, sparkling, etc. Fallibility and increasing self-assertion then become the space where the very idea of teenage can be understood. © De Boeck Université.