title: [Developmental pathways in adolescence. Narcissism and transitional phenomena].
abstract: The author describes the development of the adolescent self as a three-stage process. After termination of the accord between the young person and the parents that marks the latency period, the adolescent creates a carefully guarded inner reality serving to distance him/her from infantile images of the self and the parents. In the second stage, the young person achieves stability by electing narcissistic configurations (self-aggrandisement, dissociation, turbulent self with day-dream fantasies) which are described here as transitional phenomena and assessed by Streeck-Fischer much less negatively than by other authors. The capacity for self-distance that evolves in this stage and the attendant potential for self-definition in constant oscillation between repetition and re-creation brings the process of adolescence to its close.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Streeck-Fischer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011936:Reality Testing
vernacular_title: Entwicklungslinien der Adoleszenz. Narzissmus und Ubergangsphänomene.