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An apparently ordinary personal story doesn’t prevent patients from enduring serious and disabling symptoms. It sometimes leads to an investment in the current and the visible to the detriment of the inner life. Ali has always felt shameful, plagued by his ceaseless anxieties, and considers his symptoms as free of any causation or link. Through an initially idealized transference, the psychotherapeutic process makes it possible to work through his shame, which is both devastating and a protection against the encounter with both his self and the threatening other. Finally, the questions of the body, the gaze, voyeurism, and exhibition, along with the construction of both a narration (about a primary trauma) and a temporality, open the possibility for subjectivation and for psychic and bodily reorganizations.