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There is yet to be a satisfying scientific theory of hypnosis. Psychoanalysis has put it in parentheses, boiling it down to mere suggestion. Hypnosis is rebel to integration within the framework of science. This integration asks the question of the scientific status of the inter-subjective relation and that of the role of the relation in self-knowledge. This article treats this problem starting from research on the relation between scientific knowledge and conscience. Examining the issue from the point of view of a giving-receiving-returning relation shows that a sort of energy irreducible to other known energies is involved. This in turn evokes the question of the scientific irreducibility of the conscience’s free will. In the end, this dynamic seems to us to shed new light on the giving/giving in return logic studied by Marcel Mauss.