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"The author examines the limits of the concept of manic defense, the characteristics of all family parties (a ritual evoking family origins and the belonging of family members, but which also brooks any excess or overflow), and the peculiar nature of adolescent partying (hyperactivity and plugging into ancient feelings), in order to find out the reasons for this refusal and to pinpoint what causes the clash. Adolescents don’t like family parties because they are the vehicle for a genealogical order in which they think they have no place. This would explain why they cannot stand the apologetic tone of such parties or the certainties supposedly derived from the mythical allegories expressed in them. This rejection ties in with their aim to build a new filiation for themselves, which leads them towards other groups and other parties (rave parties); but this is only the visible aspect of another quest, whose purpose is to seek a place for themselves in the genealogy."