This article concerns the debates about contemporary adolescence. Based on three feature films released in 2016 (Raw, The Neon Demon and Kill me please), it discusses the actual of adolescence, understood as that which does not stop not writing itself. Methodology involves considering the moments when we watched the movies as a recurring dream and their narratives as a “secondary elaboration”, rearranging their signifiers. As a result, some transversal themes were observed: the capture of the subject in his own specular image, cannibalism and morbid-erotic jouissance. Finally, we connect these elements to formulate the following question: would the proliferation of discourses about adolescence be an ever-failed effort to name something that cannot be named?
Key words:
Psychoanalysis; cinema; adolescence; actual