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The adolescent identity in rural family today
From a clinical experience in rural environment, the “Lieux Dits”, we tried to develop a new metapsychological approach of adolescence in rural environments. Indeed, when rural values don’t hold or are opposed to adolescent desires, when personal identity is threatened by rural family values, the adolescent finds himself/herself in the middle of a loyalty conflict. The acting out comes as a way to mobilize the family or cut off the family link, to move away from the family psychical device, because sometimes extracting oneself constitutes the only solution, the less painful and psychically more economical. It is when the creation in co-construction of new spaces such as the “Lieux Dits” takes on its real meaning, as a substitute or support to the family container. The therapeutic framework proposed enables the adolescents to have an authorized space of speech apart from the signifiers of rurality, but it also authorizes the respect of the rural culture of the parents and the possibility to draw from there the resources necessary to identity construction. Therefore, instead of an adolescent acting through or on the body, the representation can be done within this space of care in co-construction.

Keywords

family, rural environment, psychologist, educator, adolescents