ISSN: 2578-5095
Authors: Savinaud C*
Cases of sexual abuse of adolescents are not limited to behaviors classified according to their inadequacy to social reality and their adaptive capacity. Our study covers 60 cases of adolescents followed for 10 years in psychotherapeutic care, 32 of which were analyzed according to an evaluation grid based on nosographic criteria derived from the classical psychopathology used in Europe and South America. (Freudo-Lacanian designs). From this statistical and empirical analysis, we conclude that the assaults of adolescent perpetrators of sexual abuse have significantly different characteristics, not in behavioral terms in relation to the age of the perpetrator or the victim, the socio-cultural context, or in the mode of operation, but in terms of intrapsychological and developmental issues. We have distinguished 3 « psychopathological categories »: archaic functioning, rivalry « mirrored » infant positions, and violent genital organizations, in relation to chaotic, symmetrical parental-adolescent familial dueling relationships, and finally grounded in transgenerational guilt. The distribution of cases according to these criteria gives balanced results from the point of view of the designated categories, which supports the hypothesis of a graduation of the problems according to the combination of the different psychic organizations in the fields of their agic expression, the forms of underlying sexualities, and family structures. They are subject to an action psychopathology that takes into account their position in relation to the childhood history of their sexuality and the novelty of Pubertaire’s issues, which can be traumatic. Our clinical approach, of psychoanalytic orientation, allows us to better seriate the psychic processes in progress in the expression of sexual violence, and to propose a dynamic reading grid.
Keywords: Adolescence; Sexual Abuse; Family; Puberty; Specularity
