Adolescent sexuality in the light of group processes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is used to illustrate several connected theses regarding the relation of the couple to its surrounding social group: these include a couple's oedipal rebellion, the unconscious longing for and hatred of the idealized couple by the large group, the denial of aggression within the couple and its projection onto the group, the impotence of rationality and the conventionalization of sexuality in the large group, and the pervading dynamics of aggression in group formation. Pertinent psychoanalytic theories are briefly summarized, and this combined analysis is applied to the psychoanalyst's attitude regarding adolescent patients' love life.

publication date

  • January 1, 1980

Research

keywords

  • Group Processes
  • Literature
  • Psychoanalytic Interpretation
  • Psychology, Adolescent
  • Sex

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0018825305

PubMed ID

  • 7360827

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 49

issue

  • 1