Le féminin dans les agirs violents d’adolescentes délinquantes

Abstract

ObjectivesThe acts of teenage delinquency and above all violent ones have often been reviewed from male examples. In this study, we’ll study specific acts from female teenagers. MethodThe corpus of clinical interviews and discussions gathered among teen girls living in educational institutions was crossed with psychological psychoanalytical and criminal studies allowing us to focus on the specificity of violent acting from girls. ResultThe evidence of precocious trauma along with the narcissistic dimension of delictuous acting in front of “boys eyes” stand in the foreground. Previous or recent depressive symptoms, anxiety about loss are the main constants among young girls with various psychological operating ways. DiscussionWe observe a real defect of structuring identifications. Mother identification basis of feminine identification appears to be extremely fragile. Resorts to acting of this population would be anchored here in an appeal dimension to the object and would be linked to an adaptative regression. ConclusionIf resorts to violent acting from teen aged girls are revealing of problems inherent to teen aged, these young girls express it in a specific way linked to what they receive from the outside world: their womanhood and its treatment through traumatic experiments. One of its specifities thus residing in a blurred border between resort to acting against oneself and against others. Attacking their self womanhood or destroying it at other girls would be a sort of self “womanhoodcide”.