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The author situates adolescence at a point of tension between the developmental approach that postulates an anticipated sequence that inevitably has to be followed and other perspectives that consider it as a mental state that is in some sense age-independent. Studying the end of adolescence, the author considers that in the contemporary situation, a period of accelerated change, there are at least three factors in addition to daily analytic practice that affect the progression and end of adolescence: technology and the media, sexuality and new family configurations. Each of these subjects is examined separately. Another section is devoted to the question of the end of analysis in adolescent patients.