Throughout his or her childhood development a human being must formulate representations of drive objects inside the mental apparatus. Adolescence merely shows the effects of the earliest experiences, especially the possibility to construct oneself as a psychic object. The dialectic between the inside and the outside, between subject and object inscribed with the first objects of the drive is at the center of the pathology of juvenile delinquency.
Objects of the drives; psychic object; adolescence; delinquency