[Adolescence and politics]

Both members of an "Adolescence"/"Politics" equation are analyzed. From the political point of view, epistemological difficulties underlying its praxis-linked to both linear causality, and Gabel's "morbid rationalism", are described. The way such difficulties are related to the social disease by means of an "institutional narcissism" is also described. It is the author's contention that an adolescent's possible choice is conditioned by its "political character" (according to Fromm's, and Adorno's use of such expression), and based on Merton's typology of responses to anomia. A "revolutionary character" is described as being the closest to Merton's "rebel" response, and--as regards a social health sense--is considered to be the healthiest possible response. Emphasis is placed on teachers' role to help both children and youths in their displacement from the authoritarian character to the revolutionary one in view of the latter's social importance.