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A fall—a bodily injury frequently feared by the elderly—invariably challenges the encounter between the external and the internal reality within each individual, and the possible fates of the relations between the psyche and the body as one ages. Based on a clinical encounter as part of a doctoral research, we seek to show some aspects of the working process of ageing already underway when the fall occurs. In some individuals, this work leads to psychic reshuffles that can address what we can call the “reluctant body” in falls. Our aim is to provide some food for thought in support of the idea that, among the psychic conflicts of elderly persons at this time, the œdipal problematic can remain actively involved and can engender more or less intense psychic suffering. We will thus shed more light on the ways in which this physical failure has been addressed from a psychic perspective, rather than solely from a biological and social viewpoint. Under the guise of highlighted somatopsychic vulnerability, certain anxieties directly linked to this œdipal conflict are indeed likely to be revealed. These mark the difficulty in smoothly negotiating the castration and passivity reactualized in ageing.