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After a general introduction to the Colloquium of October 5, 2012 at the Collège de France, the author proposes the fundamental anthropological concept of adolescence. Two formative processes involved in its creation are the pubertal and the infantile. The processes of adultness are the repetition, recollection, and elaboration of infantile neurosis. In anthropological terms, they represent the established order. The situation is explored from the perspective of the encounter—critical, and perhaps constructive and founding—between the pubertal undergoing sublimation and adultness.