This article focuses on the experience of the children of political exiles, often born in the country that received their parents and whose adolescent process occurs in the back and forth between these two countries. In this context, the adolescent difficulties of individuation are accentuated by the lack of recognition, identification and history. Two cases of young adults who grew and lived their adolescence in exile illustrate this difficult individuation in adolescence when the risk of breakdown of parental figures is always present. The issue of recognition by the socius is first discussed as an introduction of a possible figuration of an ideal "elsewhere" that makes a "here" impossible. Finally, the inscription of a personal history of exile is discussed. The analytic space proves to be a reliable environment, able to receive the acted repetition of these young adults during their emotional journey, an adequate environment to the heroic journey - which reveals truth and gives access to loss. Giving access not only to a symbolic and social recognition, but the family novel, the filiation and transmission. Without it, the teenager process is never accomplished in these young adults. © ERES. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

Exile Figuration Family novel Individuation Identity suffering Adolescence

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