The process of adolescence triggers psychic elaboration work on the Oedipus, on narcissism and the problem of separation. How is this process expressed through time and what are the results? Based on fictional work furnishing portraits of adolescents and young people, the personal diaries and letters of adolescents, but also research carried out using projective methods with random adolescents, adults and creative people, the author reflects about what underlies “ psychic growth ” and considers the various destinies of its elaboration.
Psychic elaboration; projective tests; adolescence and literature