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We wish to propose that the manner in which a principally non-neurotic adult patient evokes his adolescence might in fact be the manifestation of the retroactive effect of a forward-acting effect that can hopefully be constructed during the process of psychoanalysis that has already prepared by analytic work. The psychic collapse that occurs at adolescence as the effect of an increase in drive pressure points to weaknesses in the construction of the ego and particularly to a failure in the construction of a framing structure that might allow the different occurrences of unbinding and rebinding implied by the adolescent process to take place. In psychoanalytic work with an adult, the possible construction of a new object via analyst-patient work contributes to the transformation of psychic functioning.