DL_Adolescents today: permissiveness through the eyes of Narcissus (2/5)
In order to think about permissiveness in adolescence, we will refer to what Massimo Recalcati elucidates in his book "The Telemachus complex" on parenting. In the aforementioned book, he resorts to Narcissus and Telemachus to approach the keys to what is happening today with children and adolescents. According to Recalcati, Narcissus and Telemachus, figures from Greek mythology, condense the positions to which children are being thrown today.
The "son-Narcissus" would be the son without desire, the one who looks numbly at his image and is dazzled by gadgets that give him back glimpses of his dissatisfaction.
The "son-Narcissus" is the result of unlimited satisfaction of his demands. Soon the child learns how to make use of his/her power. And so the parents, faced with the need to respond to the child's demands, do not give way to the operation of desire. The result is children and adolescents who are not very curious and who escape in the incessant search for immediate satisfaction.
Reyes González Anglada.