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Chair: Virgina Ungar (Argentina)
Panelists: Sergio Nick (Brazil), Florence Guignard (France) and Kerry Kelly Novick (USA)
Reporter: Adriana Yankelevich
Despite the size and spaciousness of the room and the large number of attendees, a climate of intimacy between the panelists and the public was
quickly established. The topic was of great clinical interest. Virgina Ungar, President of the IPA, presented the panelists: Sergio Nick, Vice President of the IPA; Florence Guignard, member of the Paris Psychoanalytical and consultant at the COCAP, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Committee; and Kerry Kelly Novick, member of the American Psychoanalytical Association.
The communication of Sergio Nick consisted of a Prezi presentation, something uncommon at psychoanalytic congresses. The combination of text and images was an interesting way to emphasize, through the chosen medium, the message of the presentation: that the contemporary adolescence encounters the same problems as always (internal and external changes, searching for a path for the oedipal drive) except in a world now governed by the presence of images and no longer the word. He introduced a concept that was later continued by Guignard in her exposition of the extimo in opposition to the intimate. This was “a world without walls”, according to Nick. Quoting the Argentinian anthropologist Paula Sibilia, Nick said that there is an absence of introspective and secret gestures, and a profusion of a putting in public, and exhibition. Nick observed a transformation in the plane of subjectivity, which is not constructed in a dark and enigmatic interior, accessible only for each one individually and with others, in a dialogue, like the psychoanalytic one. On the contrary, in the contemporary adolescent, the subjectivity moves predominantly towards visibility. Nick also referred to the current adolescent corporality where different psychic modalities of mental processing are articulated on the sexual body: paradoxical lo