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This paper addresses adolescence as a process fundamentally marked by the notion of gap—an “in-between” that might be primarily related to the physical transformation induced by puberty. Is adolescence a full act in itself or does it take place “between the acts?” How does the “other scene” unfold? This paper draws a parallel between the adolescent journey and the transsexual epic, which sheds new light on the phobic manifestations at work during adolescence. These thresholds marked by phobia are moments of passages also highlighted by Judaism, notably when celebrating bar or bat-mitzvah. A series of analogies then present themselves that can render this same logic of passage: a logic that also defines the unconscious, and of which adolescence as an event may represent the peak as a transformation very close to what is at stake in the psychoanalytic experience.