SK8 as an Adolescent Symptom: A Psychoanalytical Perspective and Aspects of Physical Education and Sport

By Yves-Félix Montagne
English

This work will show how a subject chose SK8 (sk-eight = skate-board) to face new anxieties that can arise in adolescence. Psychoanalytic concepts and methodology frame the case study. Interpretative analysis of 14-year-old adolescent Eddie’s words reveal the extent to which SK8 is his answer, in the Real, to the essential questions raised at this time of life: Who am I? What is death? What is sex? Aspects of physical education and sport that integrate this use of a physical, sporting, and artistic activity as signifier will be presented.

Keywords

  • physical education and sport
  • psychoanalysis
  • adolescence
  • clinical methodology
  • skate board
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