Panel report: IPA Congress Cartagena 2023: Adolescents in the Line of Fire today: Ideals-Identifications-Transformations.

Abstract

This panel considers the profound capacity of societal and environmental realities to threaten and interfere with the necessary identi fi cations that allow adolescent transformation and evolving subjectivity. Following an introduction by Anzieu-Premmereur, Franckx examines the e ff ects of the climate crisis on the emerging identity of the adolescent. She suggests that the process of mourning childhood and the loss of infantile omni-potence can be impeded by perilous realities. Franckx demonstrates that while the path towards self-di ff erentiation requires increasing awareness of reality, threats to survival can derail the process and interfere with the containment that is necessary for psychological development.