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The author considers the political as a dimension inseparable from the encounter between the therapist and the adolescent. At the same time instigator of a function that mobilizes thought, and promoter of the “bonding” value, pedagogue, and caregiver, the psychotherapist for adolescents recognizes the conditions specific to this encounter. By the multifaceted definitions of himself, he risks expressing his own relation to the organized, which lays the foundation for a living-together and makes possible a relation between thinking and speaking subjects. What is at stake in the encounter with the adolescent coincides, in fact, with the confirmation or the discovery of an inter-subject capacity. This is how it is, at the highest height, political.