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This text, unpublished in French, is the transcription of a paper given by Jean-Pierre Pinel in Ischia in 2018, during the scientific days of the European Association for Transcultural Group Analysis. Based on a key clinical vignette, the author develops in an original way the concept of the “respondent” (répondant) – who is sometimes unavailable, rejected, inadequate – and the psychological and institutional effects, particularly of reversal, for the adolescents and professionals confronted with such a “deprivation of the respondent”. These conceptions make it possible to revisit issues of intergenerational transmission within complex cultural frameworks, and invite us to understand adolescents (and the related clinical practice) as “revealers and symptom-bearers” that can help us “re-examine the subjective repercussions linked to the accumulation of collective catastrophes that have marked the twentieth and twenty-first centuries”.