ABSTRACT
Parents and pedagogues know that children entering puberty often exhibit quite extreme changes in character and psychic difficulties. Changes in the adolescent’s body occasion changes in his psychic balance. It is very difficult to deal with all of these unexpected feelings now emerging, to perceive them, reflect on them and accept them as a part of oneself. It is helpful when parents can talk together about their ambivalent feelings, understand each other and support one another. But her intense feelings give her no peace she needs to know whether he is still in love with her. Lucy must investigate her own mixed feelings she herself does not know why she experiences such mood swings. He describes their physical and psychic attraction to one another as well as the overwhelming feeling of intimacy. Sexual fear is often not conscious but is revealed in the shunning of close, intimate relationships.
