The pubescent body questions the backside of culture and puts to test pulsional dynamism. A place of transformation and metamorphosis, the pubescent body overthrows infantile certainties and reactivates the Oedipus complex, thus questioning social concepts. How does the adolescent crosses that “storm”? Does that pulsional upheaval make adolescent symbolization fail? What fantasies are reactivated by pubescent transformation? How does society take into account the subjective factors that come up during that period? In this context, the author suggests the practice of sports as a compromise to negotiate pulsional dynamism disturbed by the reality of the pubescent body. A clinical case illustrates that proposal.
Adolescence; pubescent body; sports; Oedipus complex