This article sums up the author’s ideas about the passage through adolescence. When the human event of the negative pubertary occurs in the subjectal development of the infantile organization, it gives rise to an unknown life-force that instigates adolescent creativity, rich in representations and leading to adolescent neurosis. How will the psychoanalyst welcome this gigantic adolescens work with its pitfalls into the transference-countertransference bond? For the adolescent to consent to adult life, work on the latency between the Ego and society must take place, with the risk of developing excessive narcissism or observing a subordination of the Ego.

Adolescence, 2024, 42, 2, 201-235.