»The theatrical work of B.-M. Koltès illustrates several aspects of the symbolic crisis which characterize our modernity in relation to the adolescent scene. In the work of this author, we witness the development of the pubertaire experienced as a major trauma by the family, ruled mainly by the confusion of generations and by narcissistic filiation. Caught in a developmental impasse and without narcissistic support from the parents, the Koltèsian youth imagines that he can found an a-genealogical community with other « brothers « and thus elude the questioning of filiation. But outside his family he finds only hatred and violence. All in all, the social body to body merely reproduces, like a mirror-image, the violence of the pubertaire scene and that of the incestuous family.»