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The author builds upon her clinical work with adolescents in Tunisia to show how, in a subjective history marked by a deficiency of the paternal function, an event of disaffiliation/delocalization,—a rupture in the social fabric, added to the disidentification towards the parental figures due to the very fact of adolescence, can leave teenagers facing a traumatic reality and an anguish of annihilation. This article emphasizes the importance to adolescence of social fabric and institutions, which play a major role, positive or negative, insofar as they constitute a possible site for clearing and repairing childhood injuries. In contrast, the clinical cases presented in this text highlight the devastating effects the teenager faces when he/she cannot find a place to welcome and accommodate his/her speech and recognize it as valid and serious. Finally, this text takes into account the trans-generational effects of the shame affect. The ideological commodification of identity, which is used as a weapon of war, serves as a piece of a puzzle to answer the affect of the parental shame inherited by the adolescents. Thus, jihad becomes a sort of psychic rearmament, and the jihadist group is the place to carry out revenge against the “anonymous oppressor.”