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The appearance of the erotic feminine at puberty is what breaks in at adolescence, for girls as for boys. The adolescent boy or girl must tear him- or herself away from maternal seduction and control, which tend towards non-differentiation, and embark on a new work of access to differentiation of the male and female sexes. This may be called the “work of the feminine” and it leads to the erotic and romantic encounter. Paternal seduction acts as an aftereffect, reorganizing the early maternal seduction. It has the two characteristics of being fracturing, in the sense of (sometimes traumatic) rupture, but also nurturing, in the sense of re-structuring. It is therefore initiatory and begins the change of object. A difficult operation of appropriating the body and sexuality can take place between the two through drive self-seduction. The therapist’s function as “therapeutic double” enables this take place.