A reinstalação do si-mesmo: uma compreensão fenomenológica da adolescência à luz da teoria do amadurecimento de Winnicott

• Main Author: Ana Maria Frota
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2006-01-01
• Series: Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=229017510006

This paper aims to reflect on adolescence as a phenomenon that appears in human development. It discusses adolescence from a phenomenological approach, from a Winnicottian reading. The paper defends the thesis that adolescence may be understood as an existential period which makes possible the reinstallation of oneself. Winnicott considers the process of self awareness as the child's psych birth, that is, as his insertion in the world. This paper proposes the understanding of a healthy adolescence as a crucial period which allows for a new self awareness. In this period the displacements are remarkable; this fact facilitates a new self awareness which is made possible but is not determined by adolescence self.