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The authors consider several recent works which they feel best illustrate the psychoanalytic approach to adolescence. They focus on three areas: the major theoretical axioms of adolescence; the psychoanalytic process as seen in the technical variants and difficulties created by adolescence; and, finally, the importance of the recollection and elaboration of adolescence in the analyses of adults. They review the work of Peter Blos, aware that this may be provocative for a French analytic audience that is more familiar with a different approach. Blos's work is presented as the most representative synthesis of contemporary American tendencies. The authors note with approval more recent work in which Blos treats adolescence as a second individuation process, correlating his stages with Mahler's work. Their major criticism of Blos is the small place he assigns to fantasy organization (except in his chapter on masturbation) and his neglect of the concept of trauma. Other authors discussed from the psychoanalytic literature in English include Melanie Klein, Fraiberg, K. Eissler, Erikson, Shapiro, Laufer, Isay, and Jacobson. The authors then review various discussions by French analytic authors, including the writings of R. Henny, E. Kestemberg, Jacqueline Rousseau and Paul Israel, P. Mâle, S. Lebovici, R. Diatkine, and J. Simon. They also note the work of B. Grunberger and compare it with that of Kohut on narcissism. The review is excellent, careful, and detailed. It provides the reader with a very good overview of French psychoanalytic contributions to the theory of adolescence, as well as an idea of the French response to English and American contributions to the topic. There is an extensive bibliography.