This article will offer an analysis of the silence adolescents impose on their therapist within group psychotherapy. The authors hypothesize that this silence is a projection of adolescents’ archaic anxieties and fantasies of devouring and incorporation onto their therapist. The latter, by offering him or herself as a transforming receptacle, opens the way for a more secondarized kind of psychical elaboration.

Adolescence, 2025, 43, 1, 101-112.