ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the construction of self amongst a group of young boys in Denmark who have had experience with eating disorders, self-harm, loneliness and other manifestations of a lack of well-being. At first glance, these manifestations of a lack of well-being seem rather distinct and incomparable, but they have in common the fact that the young boys who have had these experiences say that they are due to personal faults and imperfections. In other words, they are related to problematizing thematizations of the self. The chapter investigates these problematizing thematizations and explores the ways that young boys understand and experience the self, and how they link this self to their lack of well-being. It presents a post-structuralism-inspired perspective of young boys' construction of self, lack of well-being and how experiences of marginalization are related to that. The chapter deals with a marginalization that is occurring in a society where the space of alterity is increased.
