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The literary works of Hervé Guibert (1955–1991) are a written and visual account of his body image as his illness (AIDS) evolves and his body deteriorates and enters into martyrdom. A psychoanalytical approach to his last autobiographical writings shows how the sources of the author’s creative process are influenced by his body’s decline, the intrusion of new medical technologies for treatment, and with the certainty of his impending death, and how these influences unfold in his writings as strategies of survival for escaping death. Such writings about an “extreme” body allow us to reach creative functions in the context of a fatal illness. Guibert’s literary work highlights some of the processes of survival found in patients faced with “extreme situations” of subjectivity in the contexts of various clinical encounters.