The notion that we are living in a time of generalized adolescence brings into question both as regards contemporary forms of social ties and the concept of adolescence in psychoanalysis to interpret them. At the present, new configurations induce an impoverishment of the public space as a place for building experience. We highlight as an effect of such impoverishment the dissemination of the "capitalist discourse". This does not promote social ties, but an illusion of completeness leveling subject and object. This kind of short circuit produced by cultural practices leads also to an idealization of the adolescence as a sublime time within existence, being eternalized, and that results in a paradox difficult to solve by the youth to cross it. If everyone wants to stay forever young, who will take the place of the adult in the relationship with teens?
adolescence; social bond; experience; time; capitalist discourse
