Passion and subjectivation in adolescence

Abstract

Passion, understood as a transformational experience, constitutes one of the most intense forms of psychic reorganization. By destabilizing previous narcissistic configurations, it opens the way for the emergence of love — and, with it, for the possibility of the inscription of symbolic loss. Between the illusion of completeness and the recognition of otherness, the subject traverses a space of creation. In this passage, passion fulfills its function: transforming imbalance into a path toward maturation, and loss into the very condition of living.