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Waiting disrupts our daily lives, our habits, and inevitably removes the social roles through which others have come to know us. This is because the wait times seem too long, too empty, or, conversely, too laden with fears and doubts, and because the space we are waiting in becomes a cage that forces us to wait there and nowhere else. As a result, the pace of waiting is always wrong, and the mobility or immobility it requires closes more doors than it opens. Being able to wait and managing the act of waiting therefore requires a new pace of life, as well as the ability to turn what is often a difficult time into one wherein new relationships are developed with the self, others, and the world. Thus, waiting implies a process of identity renewal. This is the subject of our study, which builds upon the dual conceptual contribution of normativity according to Georges Canguilhem and psychiatric phenomenology. Consequently, the necessity of discussing with Gilbert Simondon what is at stake when moving from “I” to “us” is demonstrated. This is essential as it is during this transfer that we are able to truly grasp the entanglement described above and thus distill the principles of an ethics of waiting.