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What emerges chiefly from this interview/debate concerning the most recent book by Roland Gori is his vigorous denunciation of the excesses of neo- liberalism which, he considers, contains the seeds of neo-fascist aberrations that are likely to corrupt the democratic system and its values. This denunciation goes hand in hand with a questioning of hyper-modernity, a breeding ground, in his view, for the exacerbation of individualism and narcissism within a significant section of members of our society affected by the ambient technicism and pressures for uniformity, both of which are signs of an evolution towards a totalitarian organization that is likely to degenerate into a “political desert.” A certain consensus was arrived at during the debate concerning the idea of a primacy of ethics and the human, and concerning the preservation, and even stimulation of forces of resistance towards both the conditionings arising from the techno-liberal universe and towards the threats of murderous fascism and dehumanizing networks of interconnected information. If one had to identify a divergence between the points of view expressed, it would only concern the evaluation of the harmfulness of certain aspects of hyper-modernity and the range of the cultural or social domains affected by an uncontrolled ultraliberalism. Finally, a shared sense of conviction emerged from the interview concerning the sustainability of the emancipating and humanizing function of psychoanalysis.