This article focuses on new forms of passion derived from the potential for contacts between reality and the virtual, and the consequences of such contacts on the formation of subjectivation in adolescence. It will offer reflections on these new forms of “connected friendship” and discuss the risks of drifts into passion that could potentially block or render pathological the second process of separation-individuation.

Adolescence, 2015, 33, 1, 99-111.