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Psychoanalytic family therapy sometimes requires indispensable preliminary work to make it possible. Group listening then consists in taking into account raw scenes that unfold without their protagonists being aware of it. They constitute a mode of expression for the transgenerational dimension, which is actualised within the framework of the sessions, overwhelming the family, seeking to represent the traumatic and unrepresentable aspects of it. By this means, the family shows what it is impossible for it to say. The importance of a groupality that is suffering, giving rise to the adolescent’s symptom(s) and to diverse family conflicts, reminds us that the subject is essentially scenic. The origin of these scenes will be explored in the work of A. Ruffiot (Pure psyche), R. Kaës (internal groups), B. Duez (figure of the intruder and scenality) and O. Avron (scenic thought). The necessity of containing and reading these scenes attenuates a transference/countertransference relationship that is sometimes intense, and makes it easier to identify oneself with each member of the family group.