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There is in the body of the teenager a truth which reveals itself through suffering rather than words, a sensorial disruption related to the awakening of the spring of puberty which exile him/her and isolate him/her from the great Other. In the name of what returns as jouissance in his/her body, of what is fantasized as new in his/her thoughts, he/she finds himself/herself, in a contingent way, face to face with a hole of knowing in the Other, not without feeling these “modern sufferings,” to quote Rimbaud. Modern for two reasons, one related to what returns as jouissance and original in his/her body, and still modern to be recreated in his/her thoughts, the other related to the modification of the speech of the symbolic surrounding. These impulses of the present time, related to the “object a,” to enjoy forevermore, have to be always articulated with the living grammar of the speech of the Other, and since this Other—this surrounding—changes and since the ideals are no longer in the same places and that one does not speak in the same way in 1906 compared to nowadays, this does not go without its share of suffering. This tension between the ideal and the object is in the middle of the tension which recreates itself in the delicate transition of adolescence.