Separation, dependence and depression in adolescence. Addiction is a step, provisional but necessary for the psychological constitution of the subject. This is one of the forms of relation without which there can be no autonomy. But dependency also reflects a pathological condition in the process of adolescence where the ability to play with the object is replaced by the need to find an object which fills, as well as masks the distress of the subject and its difficulty to be separated. We establish the hypothesis that the pathological dependency is a way to fight against depression and its underlying anxiety of collapse.
Separation; object loss; depressiveness; collapse; latency