A TEENAGER IN THE SKIN OF AN AVATAR: ISSUES OF THE MEETING BETWEEN THE ADOLESCENT PROCESS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
The novel perspectives offered by virtual realities seem to have found a "captive" audience among adolescents. Among the dynamic assumptions that we work with in this paper relying on a clinical case, we propose that the massive investment of this medium can have a function of phobic avoidance of adolescent drive activity, avoidance affecting particularly the sexual encounter with the other. This function of avoidance of the other questions the adolescent process in its work of transformation of the infantile sexuality trying to find a non-incestuous sexual object on a background of work of subjectivity opening to the "becoming adult".