This article proposes the principal themes of the psychoanalysis of the adolescent dealt with in the book L’adolescente. Una prospettiva psicoanalitica. This book, was published by a group of collaborators who for many years accompanied Amaldo Novelletto in his clinical and theoretical study of the adolescent psyche. The editors’ wish is that this book might bring something new at a time when adolescence is an area of research, stimulation, revisitation and innovation in psychoanalytical study.