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Raised from infancy as individuals, today’s teenagers need attention, recognition and consideration more than ever. Creativity, a source of narcissistic pride, is how they can obtain these vital ingredients. But in the absence of creative pride, destructive pride can take its place, especially when these young people have the feeling (whether justified or not) of being rejected, ostracized from the city and watching the tgv go by without being able to get on... Written in the heat of the moment, this text offers an analysis of recent events in the suburbs, where multiple negative conditions are operative, but whose individual and family basis lies precisely in this imperative need for recognition that destructive rage can subside for a moment, but alas only for a moment...