On the occasion of a session meant to explore his breathing capacities, I receive Ali as an M.D. This youth, aged 25 will tell me about his feeling depressed and his fear of Aids. Due to the setting enabling  » a moment to voice things « , and to this ethical position of listening to Ali with reference to the psychoanalytic method, the analysis of the signifyiers lead me to bring his fear of Aids and his brother’s together within the associations knot of his discourse. Amid a technoscientific medical approach which is gradually more and more dehumanized, clinical psychopathology and psychoanalysis have the vocation to restore the ethical function and value of illness and care