While reference to destructiveness is essential to understanding the psychic dynamic inherent to the deployment of war, it should be associated with narcissistic issues at work in both the group and the individual. The choice of an enemy against whom one can unleash the violence of drives can be a solution for addressing the fragilization of the Ego in adolescence. So how do we participate clinically in the transformation of the warrior dynamic?

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 193-204.