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Passer de chez ses parents à chez soi : entre attachement etdétachementGoing from Your Parents' Home to Your Own Home. Attachment andDetachmentPasaje del hogar paterno a su propio hogar : entre apego y desapego

Emmanuelle MAUNAYE

Voir les jeunes autrementNumber 43, printemps 2000

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/005186arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/005186ar

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1204-3206 (print)1703-9665 (digital)

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MAUNAYE, E. (2000). Passer de chez ses parents à chez soi : entre attachement etdétachement. Lien social et Politiques, (43), 59–66. https://doi.org/10.7202/005186ar

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This article follows the process of separation of young people from their parents. Itdoes so by a concrete analysis of the young person's first experience of leaving home,of the space left (the parental home) and the new space occupied (their new home), aswell as of the objects which circulate between the two. Ambivalence characterisesthis transition. Closeness is maintained with the family, at the same time as distanceis sought. Two selves exist. There is the "child" self, attached to the family andinscribed in the objects and space of the parental home. There is also the self of the"young adult", in the process of becoming and needing a break with the familiarworld so as to create itself. The process of separation of young people from theirparents involves a constant balance between proximity and distance, attachment anddetachment.