AUTHOR=Ouvry Olivier 

TITLE=Lacan and Adolescence: The Contemporary Clinic of the “Sexual Non-rapport” and Pornography

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02299

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02299

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>This article explores two clinical phenomena—pornography and conspiracy thinking—that are highly relevant today and can be observed specifically among adolescent boys in the early stages of post-puberty: conspiracy thinking and the viewing of pornographic videos. It shows that the Lacanian concepts of the Real (of puberty) and the sexual non-rapport help us understand the psychopathological aspects of these two phenomena. Watching pornographic material becomes equivalent to a conspiracy theory about the sexual non-rapport; both in fact deny the effect of what puberty introduces as radically new.</p>