{"title":"Adolescence and Development: Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis","authors":"Edgar Alfonso Acuña Bermúdez","doi":"10.19080/gjidd.2020.07.555705","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The passage through the adolescent period is somewhat messy and never in a straight line. In general terms, adolescence extends from the moment of sexual maturity until the age at which independence from the authority of the adult is ensured by law. In truth, the attainment of the goals in mental life that characterize the different phases of the adolescent period are often contradictory in their direction and also qualitatively heterogeneous; that is, this progression, digression, and regression alternate in evidence, since they temporarily comprise antagonistic goals. Regarding the choice of adolescent object, the mental and physical state that is generally associated with adolescence (both early adolescence and adolescence proper) has very different qualities from the pre-adolescent phase. The stage of body image representation in adolescence is important, since it is at this stage where the adolescent is faced with physical changes (growth of sexual organs, increased hormonal activity, reproductive capacity, among others), changes intellectual or emotional (ability to make self-value judgments, etc.) and three crises: identity, authority and sexual, fundamental aspects that influence the perception of their body. During adolescence proper, there is a decisive shift toward heterosexuality and a final and irreversible renunciation of the incestuous object.","PeriodicalId":93559,"journal":{"name":"Global journal of intellectual & developmental disabilities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global journal of intellectual & developmental disabilities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.19080/gjidd.2020.07.555705","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The passage through the adolescent period is somewhat messy and never in a straight line. In general terms, adolescence extends from the moment of sexual maturity until the age at which independence from the authority of the adult is ensured by law. In truth, the attainment of the goals in mental life that characterize the different phases of the adolescent period are often contradictory in their direction and also qualitatively heterogeneous; that is, this progression, digression, and regression alternate in evidence, since they temporarily comprise antagonistic goals. Regarding the choice of adolescent object, the mental and physical state that is generally associated with adolescence (both early adolescence and adolescence proper) has very different qualities from the pre-adolescent phase. The stage of body image representation in adolescence is important, since it is at this stage where the adolescent is faced with physical changes (growth of sexual organs, increased hormonal activity, reproductive capacity, among others), changes intellectual or emotional (ability to make self-value judgments, etc.) and three crises: identity, authority and sexual, fundamental aspects that influence the perception of their body. During adolescence proper, there is a decisive shift toward heterosexuality and a final and irreversible renunciation of the incestuous object.