The Bodybuilding Passage to the Act of the Adolescent

Objective: this work focuses on bodybuilding as narcissistic inscription of the relational dynamic of the ego and the body, in this sense we think that this symptomatic adolescent act highlights a defective image of the body, leading, by a sadistic passage exercized on the split body, to an Ego/body-ideal. Method: Semi structured interviews with 16 adolescents between 15 and 18 years old allowed us to highlight a lexical field related to the body and the excessiveness in sports;also, the administration of TAT to a bodybuilder (17 years old) for more than 2 years. Results: Defectiveness in the structuration of the body image; the future bodybuilder will be fixated to the image of the narcissistic misrecognition. Unsatisfying object relation, implicating incompleteness in the process of subjectivation. Narcissistic and corporealizedego ideal leading the adolescent to a sadistic pathology directed toward one’s own body as a compensatory defense. Keywords—Bodybuilding, body image, narcissism, object relation.