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The hour-by-hour account of the clinical evolution of an adolescent subject to delusional symptomatology lends itself here to some reflections on the collapse into a psychotic state and its particularities at this age. This notion of a fall is developed with reference to the work of Eglé and Moses Laufer, and in particular to the concept of “breakdown.” For these psychoanalysts, the solution would be to mend this defensive fracture before it becomes fixed in adulthood. They develop the idea of a handling of transference that is specific to the adolescent subject in free fall. According to some authors, this “necessary destructiveness” resembles modes of the splitting of the Ego.