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Psychist in an institutional place welcoming adults suffering from a mental deficiency and associated disorders, we will evoke in this article situations reported from a place of clinical elaboration by educating professionals or lived in singular psychotherapeutic interviews. Confronted with subjects who repeatedly “tell stories” to their peers, to the person accompanying them on a daily basis, to the psychologist, we will question ourselves in an psychoanalytical listening, on the potentiality of meaning that these stories carry. Through the words of one subject in particular, we will question the status of these affabulatory narratives centered on a negative theme. What links can be heard between these fictions and the discourse of his first attachment figures? What unconscious effects are sought by the subject? Are they reactionary formations to initial lies of the first objects, to disconcerting and enigmatic attitudes or actions of the environment, narrative constructions staging original phantasms? Taken in the intersubjective transferential framework, would these affabulations have some symbolic virtues?