This paper discusses the role of ideas associated with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion plays among contemporary teenagers during the process of freeing themselves from family references and becoming part of more extensive institutional and relational networks. From listening to such teenagers in a clinical context, it becomes clear that the feeling of being inside or outside each specific context has become the dominant reference in their imagination and that they are therefore subject to a dichotomous and oppressive logic that tends to restrict the plasticity of their symbolic resources.
Adolescence; psychoanalisis; exclusion; clinic