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What are the characteristics of adolescents from a psychoanalytic perspective?

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Banana Chiu
4 June 2021
What are the characteristics of adolescents from a psychoanalytic perspective?

What are the characteristics of adolescents from a psychoanalytic perspective?

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Lesley Chan
4 June 2021

I wish you good luck!

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Banana Chiu
4 June 2021

That is new to me, thanks so much.

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Lesley Chan
4 June 2021

From a psychoanalytic perspective, adolescence (as experienced in the West) has been likened to the early stages of pregnancy, a ‘deeply primitive state’ where the young person can neither be controlled by others nor entirely be ‘in control’ themselves. This psychoanalytic perspective on adolescence acknowledges that, as part of an acceleration of intellectual growth, great changes in brain development take place, which renders egocentricity characteristic of adolescent behaviour. This intellectual growth prioritises abstract thinking, which becomes the dominant modus operandi, while a comparable reduction in the capacity to be self-reflective and develop moral awareness takes place.

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