Yves Jeanneret

The state of being in love in adolescence often takes on the form of passion and the accents of tragedy. It is also as feared as it is sought after, not only as re-encounter and repetition, a “republishing of old news” as Freud puts it, but also as a new discovery, a creative dynamism, and a transformative invention. Henceforth, it represents a second baptism, a new birth which must sometimes disavow the first. To love is to be reborn.Undoing oneself in order to redo oneself in a better way of recreating oneself, at the risk, of course, of losing oneself forever. The state of being in love in adolescence requires the psychoanalyst’s attention. Clinical experience sometimes confronts us with psychic breakdowns in the wake of romantic disappointments. They reveal the quality of the narcissistic foundations of the adolescent whose identity is suffering. They are more a reviviscence than reminiscence.Literature can be of great help in situations where we lack representations. It can enable us to put into words a story which has none. Using Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the author suggests several possible lines of interpretation of love in adolescence involving the notions of the sexual body, narcissism, death, orgasm, and name

Art · French Urban and Social Studies