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Using studies of Schreber as a starting point, the author highlights one particular part of the paranoiac relation with the Other and with others: “the Other wants something from me,” which is the structural model of human relations in our current civilization driven by liberalism. This paranoiac relationship with our fellow human beings constructs a way of relating to the act that offers total realization of jouissance, restricted only by impotence. The subject then finds himself inscribed in a relationship with his fellow human beings that is marked by violence, faced with the hindrances that everyday life in society imposes on jouissance. Human relations turn into violence against the persecutory other. Teenagers, more than anyone else, bear witness to this new kind of social bond.