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Postmodernity is characterized by a discursive shift in our social bond, illustrated among other things by the technological “breakthroughs” transforming the man in an object, and in a Zeitgeist (spirit of the time) tinged with disenchantment, inducing new pathological forms. Based on our praxis, from the follow-up of a patient of ours who was hospitalized in a psychiatry department, we try to draft a psychoanalytical clinical analysis of a subject with ordinary madness that cannot be reduced here to a psychosis diagnosis. This patient, already a drug-addict, seems to elaborate “sinthomatic” self-founding attempts (through writing and the use of drugs). These are partly reactualized through Timothy’s transference toward us, and are related to attempts to construct structurally sound identity fragments. Yet, from a position of exception, he faces a full jouissance at once transgressive and without limits, confronting him with the impossibility to find a subject position. This jouissance comes at such a cost that, in some respects, it works as a norm of discursive construction in the social field.