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The author continues her research on the subject of the epistemic crisis that breaks out at the end of the process of group training, mobilising fantasies of destruction involving the death drive. What measures will then be proposed in order to contain the crisis?The epistemic crisis is defined as a process in which primary thinking erupts on top of secondary thinking, thereby creating a confusion which alters the intermediate processes between affective and cognitive representations.A triad is at the basis of the epistemic crisis: the reactualisation of the dual onto- and philogenetic question of the unknown. On this view the student is subjected to a crisis before the epistemic object which reactualises the unknown that he carries within him. A second point concerns the acute crisis provoked by the examination, a traumatic event reactivating the original narcissistic wound. A third aspect is linked to the loss of the previous group of belonging (family and cultural) at the phases of entering and leaving training.In order for the peer group to function as a support for the epistemophilic drive, the other must constitute himself as an object of representation dependent on linking, articulating the internal groups and the social body, the cultural metaframes of the families of origin and the dominant culture. Cultural filiation would then have the function of an accessible ideal.