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This article looks at cases of young people designated as school or social phobic, or agoraphobic. An anthropological look at their experiences reveals a particular relationship to self and the other in a world where different educational systems and cultural representations merge.The example of Chérif forces a wider reflexion on school as a place of political and cultural domination leading to attitudes of rejection in a Touareg region. Then the question of young people suffering from social and school withdrawal in France is approached in a perspective revealing the manner in which collective fears are transmitted and appropriated on a society or family level. Though different in context, the histories of both converge towards a theory on the transmission of the ways of being affected.