The creation and cathexis of an image of one’s self-to-be seem unnecessary for both the adolescent and the adult in order to be (considered as) « normal ». In other words, what is traditionally called a « goal » plays a central part in one’s psychical life. This paper wishes to show that if the goal is always to be considered as a strategy towards immortality, its function is radically altered by the encounter between the adolescent and the « mortiferous » in death.