Echec de la dépigmentation, image du corps et angoisse du féminin chez les adolescentes Camerounaises.

Abstract

This study explores the question of feminine anxiety among Cameroonian teenagers who lose their pigmentation. During the adolescent period, the body undergoes crucial transformations both in terms of its form and in terms of its functions. What disturbs his identity that binds him to the world? The body being the only stable landmark of the latter during puberty, this one or this body becomes a battlefield with regard to its identity which is being built. Given the physiological changes with their corollary on the image that must be redistributed, the adolescent is called upon to mourn her childhood in order to be able to reconstruct her identity. However, it unfortunately happens at the end of the modifications that the image of the body can lead either to an acceptance for some or to a rejection for others or to a negative representation of the body and bodily concerns. These bodily upheavals of puberty can produce in adolescents the sensation of psychic chaos because they call into question the identity formed in childhood and stabilized during the latency period. The majority of adolescent girls can draw from it the strength of life, vitality and will to seize the new adult life which is announced and enter this period with enthusiasm. Others who are more fragile may feel worry, anxiety, and anguish and need support during this period as in this work. However, the psyche cannot maintain itself if some of its desires, its anxieties are not supported. The research is part of a comprehensive paradigm based on a qualitative estimate using the Rorschach and interviews as data collection instruments. This test, a projective instrument is a technique based on projection that allows our participants to project their suffering, to project their suffering, their anguish. It made it possible to make a global and dynamic investigation of the personality of these participants since with the anxieties that they live their Ego is disturbed consequently their personality also. The personality here must always be taken, so as not to be misanalysed, as a never-ending and permanently evolving gestalt. Its components are in perpetual interaction and form a personality structure that the clinician must grasp. This one is interested in the borders of the Ego, in the image of the body, in narcissism, in identifications; locates the level of anguish, depressive affects. These were collected from three cases that came to a dermatological consultation. The main results show a deterioration of the body image, therefore an erroneous representation of the image of the body, for this the subjects are led to experience shame, anxiety, even guilt, because the break-in not only damaged the body, but also their own representation and that of the other.