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If the adolescent, as a social construction, is not seen in terms of his evolution but in terms of what he produces in terms of projective anxieties of the social body, how can the subject caught up in this process catch hold of new signifiers in order to differentiate and singularize himself? The clinical account of the encounter with an adolescent on the fringes of social relations will serve as a basis for questioning the place of the objects of culture in an adolescent process that is in a state of impasse. Hatred and trauma feature in it as structural elements of shonen-type Mangas which serve as a thread for the therapeutic process. Culture is considered as being in the service of re-establishing social relations by supporting a process of individuation and thus a capacity for separating oneself safely.