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Danièle Deschamps speaks with force and sensitivity about that “which makes humans live and die.” By delivering us her thoughts on cancer, this disease that puts the patient up against a wall, at the foot of life we might say, she wants to “understand somewhat, give meaning, illuminate the chaos and question what can restart life or accompany it in the extinction of one’s desire.” In a very clinical and very illustrated narrative, she highlights the terrifying imagination that arises in these situations and looks at how, as an analyst, she can help these patients to “find a psychic space of thought, a physical space of life, a relational space of play, a symbolic space of creation.”