This document discusses the psychological difficulties that children experience during puberty. It notes that puberty highlights underlying conflicts that were previously hidden. The sexual desires and fantasies common during childhood development, like the Oedipus complex, are repressed but can reemerge strongly during puberty. This inner struggle can lead to inhibitions, problems, and even diseases if not managed properly. The document advocates for parents and teachers to understand the unconscious reasons for children's behaviors in order to help them through this challenging time developmentally. It also supports the use of psychoanalysis to discover the deep causes of issues and help children achieve a balance between their conscious and unconscious minds.
This document discusses the psychological difficulties that children experience during puberty. It notes that puberty highlights underlying conflicts that were previously hidden. The sexual desires and fantasies common during childhood development, like the Oedipus complex, are repressed but can reemerge strongly during puberty. This inner struggle can lead to inhibitions, problems, and even diseases if not managed properly. The document advocates for parents and teachers to understand the unconscious reasons for children's behaviors in order to help them through this challenging time developmentally. It also supports the use of psychoanalysis to discover the deep causes of issues and help children achieve a balance between their conscious and unconscious minds.
This document discusses the psychological difficulties that children experience during puberty. It notes that puberty highlights underlying conflicts that were previously hidden. The sexual desires and fantasies common during childhood development, like the Oedipus complex, are repressed but can reemerge strongly during puberty. This inner struggle can lead to inhibitions, problems, and even diseases if not managed properly. The document advocates for parents and teachers to understand the unconscious reasons for children's behaviors in order to help them through this challenging time developmentally. It also supports the use of psychoanalysis to discover the deep causes of issues and help children achieve a balance between their conscious and unconscious minds.
This document discusses the psychological difficulties that children experience during puberty. It notes that puberty highlights underlying conflicts that were previously hidden. The sexual desires and fantasies common during childhood development, like the Oedipus complex, are repressed but can reemerge strongly during puberty. This inner struggle can lead to inhibitions, problems, and even diseases if not managed properly. The document advocates for parents and teachers to understand the unconscious reasons for children's behaviors in order to help them through this challenging time developmentally. It also supports the use of psychoanalysis to discover the deep causes of issues and help children achieve a balance between their conscious and unconscious minds.
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The passage discusses some of the psychological difficulties that can arise during puberty in boys, including issues with self-esteem, ambition and relationships with parents and teachers.
The text mentions that puberty involves overwhelming sexuality, feeling at the mercy of desires and impulses that can't be met, and bearing a heavy psychological burden from the sexual and physical changes occurring.
Melanie Klein describes that the boundary between 'healthy' and 'sick', and 'normal' and 'abnormal' is fluid and that the difference is quantitative rather than a clear distinction. Repression of instincts from a young age can lead to mental health issues emerging later.
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Inhibitions and Difficulties Puberty Melanie Klein
Page 2 Melanie Klein " "Inhibitions and difficulties in puberty" 1 Melanie Klein Library Inhibitions and difficulties at puberty (1922) It is well known that upon entering puberty children have very psychological and often remarkable changes in their personality difficulties. My reflections, this paper will focus on the problems of the men leaving for another occasion the problems of development in the girls. The difficulties of men can properly be attributed to the lack of necessary equipment to handle psychological maturity sexual and physical changes involved. Overwhelmed by their sexuality, is feel at the mercy of their desires and impulses that can not meet. Should bear a heavy psychological burden. But this explanation is insufficient for a complete understanding of the concerns and problems deep and varied that we are in this age. Some men who have a reliable character and become glad of Suddenly, or gradually, challenging, mysterious rebel in home or at school and remain immune to both the tenderness and the severity. Some lose the ambition and the pleasure of learning and school failures are of concern, as well as other concerned for their unhealthy application access. Experienced teachers They know that after both behaviors, there is a shaky self-esteem or damaged. Puberty highlights a number of conflicts of varied intensity, many of which already exist and therefore dimly They remained hidden; They can now appear in even extreme form reaching manifestations such as suicide or criminal acts. if also parents and teachers are not able to respond to increased demands of this period, the damage suffered by the pubescent be even higher. Many parents are permissive with their children when they They are that they need to set limits or fail by not encouraging when they are seeking their support. Very often certain teachers, who only take on the success in exams, they neglect to investigate the causes of the failures and lack of understanding over the effort they mean. Page 3 Melanie Klein " "Inhibitions and difficulties in puberty" 2 There is no doubt that caring adults facilitate the child's progress, but it is also a mistake to overestimate the effects of environment on resolution of difficulties. All efforts of parents more love and understanding can fail due to ignorance of what is what torments the child; Similarly, teachers more experienced and business will be confused if they do not know what underlies the problems of adolescents. Therefore, it is urgent to investigate beyond events physical and mental obvious in areas that are unknown for both adult and child itself; in other words, they must discover the unconscious causes through the invaluable help of psychoanalysis, which both have been taught about it. . That is how children appeared healthy or at most little nervous may suffer after
serious losses in terms of certain requirements. In such cases it gets revealed
that the boundary between "healthy" and "sick", "normal" and "Abnormal" has never been clearly defined. This fluidity of boundaries is a General constitutes one of the most important discoveries Freud, who stated that the difference between "normal" and "abnormal" is and not only quantitative structure empirical finding constantly confirmed in our work. As a result of our long cultural development, we are gifted from birth of the ability to suppress instincts, desires and imagery, ie radiarlos of consciousness and sink in our unconscious. There remain alive and active, with all its potential cause, if repression fails, a wide variety of diseases. The forces of repression act mainly on the more prohibited instincts, especially sexual. "Sexuality" should be understood in its broadest sense, as defined the psychoanalysis. Freud's theory teaches us that sexuality is active from the beginning of life, seeking pleasure in its infancy Page 4 Melanie Klein " "Inhibitions and difficulties in puberty" 3 by the "component instincts", without being at the service of procreation and in adults. Child sexual desires and fantasies are associated with objects closest and significant, ie, parents, especially the opposite sex. Every normal child will experience a passionate love for her mother and declare his desire to marry her, at least once between three and five years old. If you have a sister, she will soon replace mother and desired object (1). These statements, which nobody takes seriously, show desires and passions that although unconscious, are of great importance for its development. his incestuous nature evokes a severe social constraint, since their realization cause regression and cultural dissolution. Therefore, They are intended to be repressed in the unconscious and form the complex Oedipus, Freud called the nuclear complex of neuroses. The mythology and poetry (2) demonstrate the universality of the desires led Oedipus killing his father and committing incest with his mother, psychoanalysis, both sick and healthy, reveals that there in the fantasy life of all. The instinctive stormy current that arises at puberty increases adolescent difficulties with its complex and then this can falter. The battle between the desires and fantasies that try to be admitted to the conscience and I repressive forces exhaust their forces. Failure I can cause problems and inhibitions of all kinds and even diseases. Under favorable circumstances, fighting forces achieve a some balance. The final outcome will determine for ever the characteristics of his sexual life, being therefore crucial for future development, especially if we consider that the task to be accomplished during puberty it is inconsistent organize partial instincts child toward procreative functions. Pari passu the child should be separated internally incestuous ties that bind him to his mother, although they They form the basis of the model of your future love. It is also necessary degree of external separation of attachment to the parents, become an active, vigorous and independent man. No wonder then that the individual at puberty must perform onerous task given by his psychosexual
development may suffer more or less durable inhibitions. Many experienced
teachers Page 5 Melanie Klein " "Inhibitions and difficulties in puberty" 4 I am informed that difficult children, they mature and become good, kind and workers seem to suffer from a decline in its vitality, curiosity and previous responsiveness. What can parents and teachers to help children in their fight? The fact understand the reasons for their problems has itself same a favorable effect on the treatment. The pain and irritation logically caused by their defiant attitudes, indifference and bad behavior will be more tolerable. Teachers recognize the transfer to them the child's oedipal rivalry with her father. In the analysis of pubescent boys can observe how often teachers become objects of excessive love and admiration and hatred and unconscious aggression. The remorse and guilt that cause them these past feelings are also part of the relationship with the teacher. The darkness and confusion of their emotions can cause the child a disgust that sometimes reaches martyrdom for the school and all that is learning. The kindness and understanding teacher can help, and unalterable confidence it can strengthen self-esteem and moderate their guilt. A favorable situation in these circumstances occurs when both Parents and teachers have been able to achieve a climate of freedom talk about sexual problems as long as the child wants. The ominous warnings about sexual issues, especially masturbation, universal practice during puberty naturally be be avoided. It is much greater damage they cause any conceivable benefit. Lily Braun, in his wonderful book Memoirs of a socialist, describes how she tried during her pregnancy to create a friendly relationship with teenage children to sexually clarification. His attempts were mockingly rejected, and that you may be lucky enough to run the most gifted attempts at sexual education. The rejection or reservation can be insurmountable. Opportunities to educate children early they will never occur, but if you try, you can alleviate and even do away with many difficulties. Having exhausted these resources alone can parents and teachers, so you must then look more effective assistance. This will be in psychoanalysis, the aid will seek the cause problems and remove their unhealthy consequences. The technique Page 6 Melanie Klein " "Inhibitions and difficulties in puberty" 5 psychoanalytic, honed through the years, to discover the causes, make them aware and help strike a balance between the demands conscious and unconscious. My work with children has convinced me that psychoanalysis of children and teen, properly conducted, is nothing more dangerous for a child to an adult. The widespread concern that the psychoanalysis reduces the spontaneity of children is refuted by the practice. On the contrary, many children have regained their joy, loss in the pit of their conflicts through analysis. Even at an age too Early analysis does not cause damage or turns children into beings asocial and uncivilized, but, conversely, to free them from their inhibitions, allows full use of all resources and emotional intellectuals in the service of their cultural and social development. Notes (1)
Meta Schoepp in his book My book and I (Berlin, Conkordia, Deutsch
Verlaganstalt, 1910; Mein Junge und Ich) has given us a beautiful example of the romance of a child with his mother and his jealousy of the father. A similar theme appears in The Book of my little brother to Geiretam (Berlin, Fischer Verlag, Das Buch vom Buederchen). (2) suffices when some quotes from a wealth of illustrative material: "If the little savage were left to their impulses and could integrate the strength of his passion thirty unreason with childhood, her father would kill her mother and dishonor "(Diderot's nephew Rameau). "I called the doors of his heart swelled: decrees that chastity should reject the wishes of the Nature, be the rival of his father, being the loving mother "(Lessing: Graugir) Eckerman considered in Conversations with Goethe, 1827, only the love of a girl by his brother You can be pure and asexual. "I think, Goethe said, that the love of two sisters is even more pure and chaste. For we know they may have been countless instances of sibling sensual inclinations and sisters who may have been aware or unknown to both. " "Beloved ... how call you?'d Need a word that includes the meaning of friend, sister, Adored, Bride and Wife "(Letter to the Countess Auguste zu Stolberg, 26.01.1775). These quotations are taken from the book of Otto Rank, Das Inzestmotiv in Dichtung und Sage, and Liepzig Vienna, Deutike, 1912. It comprehensively addresses the influence of the Oedipus complex in mythology and poetry.
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