Knotting of the fourth borromean ring in the clinic with teenagers: contingencies of the paternity

This paper aims to verify the event of paternity as a possibility of a Real, Symbolic and Imaginary mooring for teenagers through the fourth link of the Borromean knot. A clinical case was analysed from the perspective of Lacanian topology, aiming to follow the synchronic and diachronic movements of its subjectivity and relate them to paternity. This analysis showed that the circumstances brought about by parenthood allowed the adolescent to cross over traumatic Father to the symptom Father, through the entry into a discursive device and invent new ways to tie its subjectivity, coming to show that parenting can take a nomination position for the life of the teenager.

Keywords:
parenting; adolescence; psychoanalysis; Borromean knot; nomination