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Throughout this paper, we call into question the repetition of failures found in two young adults’ narratives who had dropped out school. The concept of the death drive seems to give an inside meaning to the unconscious dynamics involved in their repetitive acting out. Based on a current research project, we consider school dropout as a subjective and collective symptom, sometimes necessary for the emergence of the subject and the discovery of one’s own desire. This hypothesis appeared to us through the discourses of young “dropouts” from the first interviews conducted as part of the research project, the relevance of which we aim to demonstrate in this paper.