Based on the notions of « body image « (P. Schilder) and of « pathosformel « (A. Warburg), this study proposes to revisit Boticelli’s pictorial work from the point of view of adolescent perception, as an idealized fiction resting upon threefold suffering : the inaccessible quest for purity, the dimension of manic excess in relation to future time, and the nostalgic disappearance of the time of childhood that is irremediably gone. The method used is that of « interactions of psychoanalysis «, that is, not the use of psychoanalytical method to decipher the model, but rather the placement of artwork’s sensitive listening into tension, or into resonance, with psychoanalytic treatment, in this case that of adolescence.