The abuse of toxic substances in adolescence: an attempt to incorporate the object? This paper aims at discussing the role of the object in adolescence through a clinical vignette where the relationships to the objects are done through an incorporative fashion that prevents the access to the experiences of introjection and symbolization. Even if adolescence is defined by some psychoanalysts as a logic moment of subjective appropriation and confrontation to castration and finitude, this paper attempts to emphasize the importance of the "live" companionship of the analyst in order to open the path toward the libidinal investment of the void without annihilation anxiety.
Adolescence; psychoanalysis; symbolization; introjection; incorporation