# The Revolt Against Phallus Psychoanalytical concept for teenage rebellion, a trial of the parent generation's alleged excellence and omniscience that ends up with the adult authorities being toppled from their pedestals, wherefore the teenage subject must conquer its own phallicness, adultness and autonomy with all that this entails by way of taking responsibility and finding meaning. When this revolt is carried out successfully and has resulted in a functional self-identity, this is confirmed officially by the sociont with an *initiation ritual*.