ABSTRACT
THE 'TEENAGE' period is recognized by Fourier as a time of difficulty and disturbance for the growing child. The development of impulses, peculiar to adolescence, the onset of puberty, the desire to serve and receive recognition from the community and yet remain in independent rebellion against it, the contradictory and persistent demands made by parents, teachers, friends and society, all these inevitably conflicting demands, says Fourier, create acute problems of adjustment for the child. These difficulties arise not only through conflicting demands, but also through the repression and diversion of the impulses of the child into unnatural channels.
