Psychoanalytic analysis about identification problems with the parental function in adolescence: Transition toward adulthood as a transformative space

Abstract

A clinic vignette is used to analyze how in adolescence the process of identification and transmission of parental function is realized in the relation between adolescents and their parents. This analysis could allow us to think about the processes of transition toward adulthood. The inclusion of these processes in the clinic with adolescents could enrich the analyses with intersubjective and historical perspectives, which would allow to reflecting on the roles of parents in the clinic with adolescents, the grief in relation to the adolescence, and the current problems in the transition toward adulthood.