FLAVIGNY CHRISTIAN :CHALLENGING THE DEBT IN ORDER TO KEEP IT FOR ONESELF

»Adolescence discovers that growing up incurs debts. The child was unable to grasp this. But the adolescent does not know how to pay back this debt ; he does not feel capable of it. Whence the tendency to challenge it, a way of both for seeing it and of keeping it at a distance; what results from this is protest, which stretches the bond while preserving it.»