Chabert, in this article, discusses two issues that psychoanalysts have come to an agreement, the first of which is that adolescence revives the problematic of loss or exposes to it and second the meeting of adolescence and loss necessitates an important psychic field that embraces a rearrangement and articulation of narcistic and object cathexis. She approaches the problem on the basis of Freud (Mourning and Melancholy) and Winnicott (Fear of breakdown) both clinically and metapsychologically.(ed.)