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The rise in the number of families consulting over fear of school or social fear brings into question the role of the family both as a causal factor of the symptom and as a therapeutic resource. Obviously it is not by chance if these phobia blow up during adolescence which is a turning point in identity construction when the autonomy/belonging dialectics are brought into question in an intense way. The phobia of the adolescent implicitly begs the question of the circulation of fear, or rather its non-circulation, within the family. The feeling of existence within the adolescent starts by being woven, firstly in the family depending on loyalties proper to the history of the family as well as its adhesion to the family myth. Two family histories, different in their functioning, show the re-appropriation by the adolescent of a fear which does not belong to him.