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How can hospitality and transference be considered together? Starting out from a questioning of “the factory of subjectivities” supported by G. Agamben, and with a detour through the biblical construction of what is presented as original fratricide, this article will discuss the paradoxical prosperity of Cain and therefore the lineage of criminals from whom we descend, according to Freud. This detour will allow us to revisit Levinas and his unconditional hospitality, which is opposed to today’s inhospitality, in society and the psychiatric institutions. How can this issue of hospitality be supported against the tide? What is the psychic positioning of a psychiatrist or of an analyst to take up such a challenge? The representation of the apathetic analyst will be drastically called into question; the goal is to question the promotion of a posture of psychic activity, while maintaining the subjective disparity in the caregiver relationship and avoiding an erotization of transference. This development from the praxis of psychosis and institutional psychotherapy is expected to be significant for the reception in psychoanalysis of what has yet to happen on a symbolic level for any suffering person.