ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will consider primarily the topic of the body in adolescence. The body-mind conflict assumes particular characteristics during this period of life because of the imposition of changes in the body, which takes on the defining attributes of the adult body. The mind, adapted until recently to living in the body of a child, finds itself confronted by an otherness that has powerful new aspects. Hatred of one’s own body and others’ – characterized at times by extreme violence – thus moves to the foreground.
