Les adolescents et la mort : des jeux de mort au jeu de vivre

Abstract

Adolescents and death : from death games to the game of life Young people do not have the fatal and irreversible vision of death that their elders have, it is not considered as the destruction of the self, it does not mean the end of life. In many young people‘ s talks, particularly adolescents girls, death is like a sleep from which one awakes one day, a time of suspension, even of purification to get rid of the wastes fouling the existence. Object of denial in our societies, death becomes a reserve of power with regard to transgressions. One gambles with one’s life to give sense. The personal ordeal is a way to give flesh to one’s life when the evidence of the pathway to the adult age is broken. But one has to pay the cost : the risk of death.