Il caso delle “scritture gemelle”: studio grafologico sulle identificazioni funzionali degli adolescenti di oggi

Abstract

According to graphology, the graphic style we choose to reproduce or personalise our writing symbolizes our identity. Graphology is the science of handwriting analysis, which can develop a psychological portrait by analysing handwritten texts. A basic step of the developmental path which leads to the formation of our own identity is adolescence. In this period, the upgrade of social contacts is important, because teenagers can build new relationships with their mates and peer group and make new identifications in addition to the ones already created inside their family unit. Those identifications can be easily observed by studying teenagers’ handwriting. They can also become so meaningful that they produce “twin writings”, similar handwritings which seem to be written by the same hand. Their peculiar traits will be shown in this study through examples of handwritten texts and appropriate notes. More than a mere coincidence or a will of imitation, the “twin writings” reveal a sharing of values, likings, ambitions and attitudes due to love, friendship or inclusion needs. If analysed by graphological techniques, they allow a proper understanding of a delicate and very important transition to maturity. In this life step, the borderlines of one’s own identity fade to open passages to the other’s presence.