ABSTRACT

During the last forty-five years or so, a different kind of problem has arisen in adolescent boys and girls vis-a-vis sexuality. Before that, the main task was to overcome the antisex and antisexual pleasure attitude that emanated from external parents and other authority figures and dominated the internalized parental authority figures in the minds of young people. In the adolescent boy especially the destructiveness is often deflected from the self and enacted upon someone else-his sexual partner, for example, or someone standing in for her, or another male standing for himself and used as a scapegoat. The addictive-dependency relationship dates from feelings and attributes that are of the essence of predepressive position experience. It consists of a regard for the other person only in terms of what is best for and suited to the self, that is, to the subject. It consists not only of a parasitic taking from the partner, but also an extremely primitive evacuation into the partner.