Abstract

The authoress of this article describes some processes of identification, which happen during adolescence, making use of "the relation with the object" as an istrument to understand these processes in this way. Adolescence is considered as a foundamental moment, where together with the reproposing of Oedipus and of archaic anguishes, there is a structuration of processes of separation and differentation which have as a target the acquisition of the gender identity. It's proposed a clinic case, as esemplification in relation to the subject discussed.