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Is there a “modernity of old age”? The age of desire does not match the biological age of the body. Narcissism is challenged in the aging process, and it calls for power technologies that can master the political dimension of the aging body and regulate its pleasure. The anxiety which derives from this specular aging experience also leads to social solutions aimed at containing it. These two political modalities are always dated. They reveal the historical dimension of the phantasy without having an impact on its timelessness. The experience of time and age as symbols of recognition and of the masonic practice allow a modern clinical study of phantasy. This clinical study impacts on the examination of theories of desire and of women from a psychoanalytical point of view.