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The notion of consolation seems to be connected primarily with the pain of mourning and relates back in particular to parents who are inconsolable for the loss of a child. But Stig Dagerman refers to the irrepressible and insoluble need for consolation generated by life itself. Should religious faith be considered as a form of conso­lation? While it is interesting to consider how belief is manifested and expressed during an analytic treatment, it is its ambiguity that is striking; it is more in the emergence of a tender current that we will explore whether the concept of consolation can have any relevance in psychoanalysis.