Les mécanismes de la transition identitaire au moment de la retraite

Contrary to a generally accepted idea, retirement, most of the time, is not badly lived. This article proposes to give off the mechanisms of the identity transition which allow to understand why this passage proceeds, generally, carefully (and also why it is sometimes made more with difficulty, when these mechanisms are blocked) : the " professional desocialisation anticipated", which consists, in last times of professional activity, to take its distances with it little by little ; belief in the crisis of retirement, which operates as an automoderating prophecy ; commitment in new activities after retirement for which the neopensioners have three types of " supports" -collective, identity (under the double species of already experimented identities and " potential" identities) and relational.