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C. Dejours firstly recalls the specificity of clinical method, as he conceives of it in the context of his work. This specificity consists in having individuals articulate within a shared setting their individual and intersubjective relationship to work and to the collective division of labor. It is this confrontation or debate between individual experiences that leads us to the real of work. The experience of the real and of its resistance is above all an emotional experience, an experience of suffering which is not necessarily fated to be so, in so far as it brings to light the potential for intelligence and the pleasure of work. Thus attention is paid to organizational aspects of work that can impede this promise of achievement, or may even give rise to work-related mental pathologies. In particular, the question of the individualized evaluation of performance arises here. The demands made on psychologists, and in particular on the application of clinical psychology to work, have intensified as the traditional structures of the world of work have broken down. However, without claiming to have overcome the systems of domination that are in place, the author sketches out some approaches that would indicate a better taking into account of the question of work in the public arena.