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Dependent ageing raises the question of the body in several dimensions that will be developed from both a clinical, psychoanalytical, and political perspective: the bodies of the aged and their motor, sensory and cognitive afflictions; the bodies of professionals between fatigue and wear. These bodies, caught between biological density and drive investments and their related defences, are increasingly put under tension and brought into focus with the irruption of hypermodern technologies. The latter will be understood as attesting to the denial of the reality of the old and damaged body, and to a new version of the fantasy of immortality. Particular attention will be given to the dimension of security and/or domination over bodies.