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In the wake of E. Cuvillier’s commentary of John 11, Pierre Isenmann suggests that the story of the encounter between Jesus and the sisters of Lazarus (John 11) opens the way for other encounters. Like Christ (in John 9), psychoanalysis is not meant to explain death, but to connect it to life. What opens to the true encounter is not a theological compendium but the tears of Jesus touched by Mary’s despair. The question of the resurrection concerns each character at the very place of their meeting. Between consent and refusal, there is a way to play dead in order not to die.