One of the main aims of this paper is to link drive-related violence and adolescence. The author underlines the traumatic features related to that period of life. The question of reliving the Oedipus complex is also emphasized, especially its repercussions, that are often traumatic for the psyche of the parents as well.
A beautiful and tragic novel by Arthur Schnitzler (1913) – Frau Beate und ihr Sohn, which describes numerous episodes of acting out grounded simultaneously in the unconscious experiences of a mother and of her son when faced with an untranslatable “discontent”– inspires and supports the development of the ideas presented.
Adolescence; violence; drive; Oedipus complex