Luis Kancyper
Introduccin
Resumen
Rsum
ADOLESCENCE ET Ji POSTERIORl
Surnrnary
The author stresses the central role played by the Frcudian concept of a-
posteriori in connection with the phenomena that characterize adolescence,
a privileged moment of the retroactive re-signification, of the a-posteriori,
since it constitutes a new libidinal stage where a genital sexual identity as
a psychological and social phenomenon is attained for the first time.
He begins by distinguishing between two concepts which can be readily
rnistaken in our analytic theory and practice: the concept of development and
the concept of the historical.
There is nothing historical in development, since it implemcnts a linear
temporality. Development has to do with describing a series of phases which
are not in the least individual.
History, instead, s a series of events that are individual for each subject
principle ot genetic continuity implements a linear time pointing to the con-
and mark his life. While it implies using a temporality with re-signification
of the a-posterori, and not a linear time. They can be complementary. The
ception ot history as marked by an unavoidable fate: the subject "rnarked"
by the first object and the first year of life. The principle of the a-posteriori,
on the other hand, implements a time which is continuously being re-elabo-
rated from the subject, points to a psychoanalytic conception of history which
opens up anew the possibility of challenging the inevitable fate predeter-
mined by the gods. The subject is defined according to the way in which he
is re-signfied, that is, according to the way in which he re-structures his
biography to make it his own history.
To deny the a-posteriori implies denying that the subject, by mean s of psy-
choanalysis, may come to be, to a large extent, responsible author rather than
passive spectator of his own destiny.
Adolescence: challcnge and disengagement. Here the autor develops the
concept of symbolic order, described by Lacan and taken up by Leclaire as
primary narcissistic representative, to indicate that the subject's history begins
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