Subjectivation rites in adolescence are now taking on an unprecedented configuration, in a culture where initiation, religious in particular, is less oriented towards the transmission of content and aims at self-creation and the quest for meaning. This article proposes to analyze contemporary religious, or spiritual, rites of subjectivation in adolescnce which are more or less linked to communal space. These subjectivation rites constitute the general figure of self-creation rites, and of « self-uplift » at this age. This type of rite is deployed with a transitionality which is also an appeal to the other.The example of the spiritual journey of Etty Hilsheim, a young Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz in 1943 and whose journal has had a huge readership, illustrates this theme of rites of self-creation, especially through writing, within a context of the weakness of the rite’s object of reference, a context wherein the appeal to otherness remains nevertheless in operation.