Using the case of Jerome, we will argue that the silences of affects in the speech of patients reveals how heavily repression weighs on the work of elaborating the metamorphoses of the pubertaire and how it can thus preside over the emergence of sexually violent acts. Such acts attest to the unpredictability of the work of adolescence. With the support of educational and legal third parties, therapeutic work will then focus on recomposing affects and creating new bonds within the transference.

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