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Nowadays, there is a resurgence of television series and films that adapt dystopian works. These works are highly popular with teenagers and young adults. After questioning the individual’s need for meaning and truth, the author studies the extent to which dystopian narratives allow the subject to think about internal and external realities. She then studies the specificity of the dystopian work in relation to other forms of narratives: utopias, myths, and fairy tales. Finally, the author questions to what extent dystopian narratives can contribute to the process of differentiation during adolescence, by proposing a space of containment for the main anxieties of the adolescent process, by allowing an extraterritoriality of thought, and by nourishing the capacities for reverie and figuration.