ABSTRACT
The conflicting developmental period can be better understood psychoanalytically but remains a common topic in the media, which often focus particularly on the influence of electronic games in causing adolescent isolation. While some adolescents can tolerate oscillations, others become terrorized and prefer to withdraw from the group, remaining on its periphery. Beyond the paranoid-depressive and the megalomaniac isolated adolescents, there are other manifestations that deserve scrutiny because of their frequency in psychoanalytic sessions. Donald Meltzer suggests that possessive jealousy is a motivation for projective identification, observing how it is seen "in the autistic children and in children whose drive to maturity is very low. Adolescence is a time when maturational processes are synthesized and when the gates open towards adult life. If the adolescent arrives at this point with a faulty centre of gravity, the passage towards adulthood will require a restructuring that is likely to have an uncertain outcome.
