"These anxieties are not mine": adolescence, the oedipal configuration, and transgenerational factors
Vincenzo Bonaminio1, Mariassunta Di Renzo
1Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (S.P.I.) and an Adjunct Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sapienza, University of Rome. He is also Director of the Winnicott Institute and Director of the "Winnicott-Centro" in Rome.
Abstract:
Part 1 of this paper draws on the film Back to the Future (1985) to highlight various aspects of adolescence, the oedipal situation, and transgenerational factors. The authors then discuss the Oedipus myth and its themes of adolescence, narcissism, identity, acting out, repetition, aggression, and the parent-child relationship, among others. Comments drawn from Winnicott's writing on oedipal issues are discussed as well. As an illustration of some of these issues, in Part 2, the authors present the clinical case of Osvaldo, age sixteen. Transference-countertransference issues in this treatment are explored in depth.
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