The author approaches different experiences of confinement in adolescence by way of a clinical situation and several operas. He examines the unique path of Bérangère, sequestered by her mother, and of Pamina, captive of the Queen of Night; also of Siegfried, prisoner of Mime and Tannhäuser and detained by the goddess Venus. These four situations are an invitation to different variations of the reordering of imagos that precedes the investment of substitute objects.

Adolescence, 2023, 41, 1, 51-62.