The Disney movie Inside Out tells the story of Riley’s growth through her mental processes and the emotions that characterize the stages of her development. The first film deals with the process of leaving the childhood world with its emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger. Nine years later it arrives Inside Out 2 and Puberty and Adolescence erupt and with them a more complex control panel, with new color and new emotions.
Riley is already 12, what could happen?
With this phrase the first film ends and the physical changes of puberty impose the encounter with a body different from the child’s and therefore results strange. Arises sexual maturationby destabilizing the psychic organization and the resources used in childhood are already inadequate and insufficient
It is necessarily imposed distance from the family environment and the teenager must go in Search for new objects and experiencesin a movement that imposes a work of identity reorganization and reconstruction.
In this scenario, they are expectedsadness, inhibitions, a certain tendency to isolation, boredom, even depression. Manifestations that do not fit into the pathology to the extent that are transitory.
Anxiety: the star emotion of Inside Out 2.
Nowadays we find more frequently anxiety crisis in adolescence. Being away from the family environment inevitably generates uncertainty because the encounter with a loved one is imposed. another outside of what is known and the most stable links are shaken. This process logically tends to cause a state confusion and restlessnessespecially if this leads to the collapse or crisis of the paradigms that until then supported daily life.
They can manifest as part of some disorder or in certain situations where fear and worry are excessive and not always in the face of real dangers. In some cases, there is an underlying feeling of boredom, discomfort and disorientation. In others, it is the symptomatic expression of depression that can lead to repetitive behaviour and bad mood.
The friends They should take a more prominent role at this stage functioning as support of the process and favoring the exploratory exit with the enabling of new experiences.
Anxiety doesn’t come alone
She is accompanied by: Envy, Shame and Boredom who, with his cell phone, gives an account of The new paradigms of our culture with the rise of social media and new ways of relating. Social, economic and cultural conditions are dimensions in which they are tied together the vicissitudes of emotional development and influence the transformations in subjectivity.
The social pressure determines a special vulnerability where immediacy prevails and the search of power and success. The absence of projects, the confusion in the face of a uncertain future with a social discourse that imposes hegemonic models, unattainable ideals that disrupt the construction of identity and promote frustration for not being able to fulfill them, has effects on self-esteem manifesting as boredom and envy.
Finally, in Riley’s mind the set of memories and experiences that They are the engine of development. Under these coordinates and with all the emotions and “belief systems” brought togetherthe family and especially the peer group will mitigate the feeling of loneliness and uncertainty facilitating pubertal and adolescent transition.
Intensely far from holding a vision ““nostalgic” that proclaims the old over the current or on the contrary the “anxiety” let the present prevail over the past, shows us thatIn puberty and adolescence, a temporality that encompasses past-present and future is glimpsed (the end already anticipates Inside Out 3) to make room for a possible wait: of a future project, of an identity in the making and of a desire less tied to the signs of the social and more in accordance with the singular.
PhD in Psychology. Member of the Department of Children and Adolescents of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Author of the book “A new journey in front of the mirror. Vicissitudes of the pubertal process”. Professor of undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Psychoanalysis at USAL-APA and of the Doctorate in Psychology at USAL.
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