The polemic that certain web sites give rise to is all the more enthralling in that this tool signals a real rupture in the nature of investments between the new generation and the old. The turnabout in identity transmission positions is one of the avatars generated by the invasion of avatars with the family unit. Freud wrote a few words about the telephone at the time of « Civilization and its discontents ». What would he say about Second Life in our « Crisis in the Culture » ?

Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°3, pp. 679-687.