The author draws our attention to the unique and valuable configuration of adolescence in terms of the mature organization of the mind. She examines the impact on adolescents of their experience of external reality in today's Western world, dominated by the culture of material profit, the disappearance of the rule of law, and the deliberate targeting of civilian populations in the armed conflicts that surround us. She highlights the contrast between the development of artificial intelligence and social networks on the one hand, and the disappearance of interest in inner life and intimacy on the other. She reflects on the impact of family and societal breakdown on the organization of identity and on issues of sex and gender in adolescence. Faced with this situation, she emphasizes the urgent need for psychoanalysts to care for today's adolescents, even if the traditional framework of analytic treatment cannot be respected.