In his work on the question
of the violence of adolescence, François Marty has helped to
define the specificity of adolescence in relation to childhood.
Joined to the very process of adolescence, the “ illegitimate
violence ” of adolescence has first of all been defined as the
fruit of incestuous and parricidal motivations that have been insufficiently
elaborated by the adolescens... Understood afterwards as the inauguration
of a “ pubertaire trauma ” constituting the second phase
of a “ generalized trauma ” inherent to human development,
the specific stages of its elaboration have been detected. The quality
of the narcissistic foundations emerged as determinant in the fulfillment
of the “ narcissistic transactions ” of the pubertaire trauma.
Since the process of adolescence is specific, the therapeutic work is
: for Marty, the therapist had better assume the role of “ ferryman
”, and establish, whenever possible and desirable, an “
enlarged” and “ flexible ” setting which allows for
the inclusion of the family dimension in the work with adolescents.