Contemporary subjectivities

clinic and identity in light of technological advances

Abstract

This article investigates contemporary modes of subjectivation in light of the social and technological transformations shaping adolescence today. Drawing on clinical listening and psychoanalytic reflection, it explores the impact of the technological revolution on identity configurations and interpersonal bonds, which are marked by an unprecedented cultural acceleration. In a context where intergenerational dialogue is weakening and symbolic ideals are rapidly reconfigured, the text highlights the urgency of avoiding biologicist, psychologizing, or sociologizing reductions, revisiting Freud’s concept of complementary series. Psychoanalytic practice is called upon to reposition itself in the face of new forms of suffering and to attune to the echoes of contemporary malaise in adolescent bodies and narratives. The article proposes an open and critical reflection on the place of identity, narcissism, and symptoms at the intersection of subject and culture, in a time when subjectivity is constantly reinvented.