This article is based on clinical experience with adolescents and with political and social discourse. The authors analyze the singular relationship with the other that one sees in certain adolescents who constantly violate the laws of the barrio, as if they were confronted with the limits of what they refuse to accept as experience. "Passage to the act" is also analyzed, to the extent that certain segments of political discourse are concealed when confronted with impulses that adolescents seem unable to control. Finally, several points of reference for treatment in this type of contemporary clinical situation are discussed.
Acting; perversity; political discourse; adolescence; transferrence