ABSTRACT
This chapter differs from all preceding chapters because have written it from memory. While the draft text had been sent off for final editing, this afterword without taking another look at it. At the same time, this freed me from the necessary theoretical justification and continual qualification. The original working title of the book was therefore the conscience, formerly; in this, wanted to say that the conscience had become an unusable concept and that it no longer existed. An important basic principle is that an adolescent is motivated by emotions: they determine the course of his development, spur and prompt him to take action. They may or may not take the form of actual behaviour and may or may not be conscious, but they have led him to be who he is now. No metaphors are necessary for describing these emotions; nor does any much-hyped explanatory model based on the adolescents developing brain provide an all-encompassing answer.
