Cuestiones de infancia: Revista de Psicoanálisis con Niños y Adolescentes

ALGORITHM GENERATION: THE ILLUSION OF THE PARADISE OF A PIXELATED LIFE

2025-05-17T15:26:49+00:00

The virtually unfiltered invasion of algorithms and marketing into the daily lives of today's children and young people is causing us to move from a play-based childhood to a telephone-based childhood, with everything that phones and screens introduce as an almost intrusive intervention into play processes and social ties. Recognizing the impact, measuring its consequences, and developing strategies to neutralize and open alternative avenues for the playful and symbolic expression of our childhoods is a task we cannot renounce.

TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. DIFFICULT DIALOGUE OR INTEGRABLE TENSION?

2025-06-11T17:55:03+00:00

This article aims to reflect on technological advancement (e.g., online games, Facebook, ChatGPT, etc.), its achievements, innovations, and social consequences, and contrasts this by asking what happens when these advances enter the realm of psychoanalytic practice. That is, when electronic games, devices, and technological resources challenge our traditional technical resources.

The analytical focus is on the characteristics of games based on technological foundations and play/playing as understood and technically used in psychotherapeutic practice.

Two vignettes (a 5-year-old boy and a 16-year-old adolescent) illustrate the diverse uses applied in each case with the emergence of games and/or technology in sessions.

It concludes with the recommendation that transforming the problem of technology into something processable and accessible to our technical, mobile, and unfinished resources may also require some intervention at the social and educational levels to alert and illuminate what, from those spheres, may potentially be promoting work contrary to a healthy subjectivation.

LAS MAT’S SCREENS

2025-05-29T18:21:24+00:00

The text recounts the clinical journey with a child who begins therapeutic treatment at the age of 6, shortly after having received the medical diagnosis of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD).

At first, the child showed difficulties in relating to others besides his mother. He expressed this difficulty through intense anguish, evasive behaviors, aimless movements, anger, shouting, and rigid and stereotyped interests, closely related to the content he watched on the various screens available at home.

Currently, after six years of work, the child uses technology to showcase his artistic creations on social media, with the intention of gaining followers and friends, and a strong desire to build bonds with others.

In turn, I will describe some of the interventions carried out both with the child and with the family, accounting for the different modalities his relationship with technology took on, as his psychic apparatus became enriched, thus showing the evolution of the work carried out.

EXCESSIVE AND EARLY EXPOSURE OF CHILDREN TO SCREENS

2025-05-28T15:43:06+00:00

The impact of technology on the psychic development of children has reached our clinical practices and raises new questions and challenges. We ask ourselves whether children's attachment to screens is a cause or a consequence of difficulties in the subjectivation process. Perhaps it is both.

On one hand, it could be seen as a refuge or a disconnection from a bond marked by discontinuities and absences. On the other hand, excessive attachment to screens due to a failure in the bond that regulates excitation becomes a source of stimuli which, without the presence of another to provide regulation, can become overwhelming and lead to further whitdrawel and retreat.

Not all children experience the same meanings and implications.

ANALYSIS OF A CHILD WITH SCREEN ATTACHMENT. COMMENTARY ON THE CASE OF MAT

2025-05-29T00:05:45+00:00

This paper discusses the case of Mat, a child with screen attachment, over seven years of treatment. It analyzes early bonding failures and the persistence of what was silenced within the family. On an individual level, it considers the different psychic currents predominant at each stage of his clinical evolution. In the richness of the clinical change, we observe how the screen is initially a source of continuous and persistent stimuli, unprocessed because they are not linked to qualities but to quantitative elements, where the other has no place. Then it transforms into a support for the projection of intrapsychic elements, as the therapist reinforces the judgment of reality. Finally, the screen allows for the expression of creativity, enabling engagement with peers for both competition and collaboration.

ACCOMPANYING THE TRANSITION

2025-06-13T12:55:40+00:00

The title of this paper evokes the work that begins in the consultation that parents carry out when they confirm that their daughter perceives herself as a boy. In the clinic, mothers and fathers are usually the first generation in their family to decide to accompany and support their children, even publicly. However, it is often a journey that is lived with great uncertainty, doubts, fears and anxieties. It becomes an intense emotional experience, which requires a reformulation of the convictions held up to that moment.
This paper presents a situation of the author's clinic and the reflections that were elaborated in the accompaniment of Mauri's parents, a trans adolescent.

LA THE ANALYST’S CAPACITY TO PLAY. REFLECTIONS ON PLAYFUL INTERVENTIONS IN CHILD PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE

2025-06-03T15:23:28+00:00

In relation to play, child psychoanalytic practice confronts us daily with diverse realities. Some children play and invite us to join them—whether through pretend play or board games. However, we also encounter children who, due to inhibition or a lack of play experience, do not play.

Based on brief clinical fragments, this article aims to reflect on the analyst’s capacity to play and on their interventions, drawing from the theoretical contributions of Donald Winnicott and other related authors.