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A sense of obligation toward parents is a ubiquitous factor in adolescent development (both in its positive and negative aspects), although one which has not been studied and described in the psychoanalytic literature to any extent in its own right. The author examines the intrapsychic determinants of filial obligation and richly illustrates his material with clinical examples.