Abstract

SUAREZ, Silvana C.  and  AGUZZI, Alejandro J.. The propensity to the pleasure principle in the current epoch and its effects on the exit from adolescence. Anu. investig. [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.2, pp.189-194. ISSN 1851-1686.

Utilizing a clinical case, and reading it with a base on Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan’s work, the authors present adolescence as a moment in the life cycle where the symbolic operations brought into play will determine the subject’s ability to become an adult. For this purpose, the peculiarities of the current epoch regarding the ways to satisfaction and the ideals proposed are to be considered. The operativeness of the paternal metaphor becomes crucial to bind the adolescent, as an adult subject to be, to the community within love and work.

Keywords : Adolescence; Pleasure principle; Epoch; Symbolic resources; Love; Work.