The author uses lacanian concepts in order to review important clinical situations that stand out during adolescence such as being enamored and the love/hate relationship. Adolescent temporality is brought to light with the three logical times elaborated by J. Lacan, including the adult’s repetition of phases of love that reinitiate the cycle of adolescent problematics. This juvenile phase is also a period of transmission.

Adolescence, 2016, 34, 2, 357-375.