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The case under study illustrates the repetition compulsion of a subject affected by what happened to his grand-father, who was murdered during the Algerian war in front of his son, the subject’s own father. When this event affects him, it generates serious consequences: the patient acts out, runs away, and yields to a pervert, thus playing the role of the scapegoating victim expiating for his murdered grand-father. The diagnosis is problematic. Is it a post-war traumatic neurosis? Certain clinical data seem to point to such a neurosis. Or is it a post-war trauma generating a psychosis after his father slaps him? With this slap in the face, the distressing real emerges and ejects the subject who is compelled to run away from the hole in the symbolic order caused by the foreclosed Name-of-the-Father. The hypothesis of a psychosis does not question the truth of the patient’s discourse, which shows no signs of delirium, although it is dominated by manifestations of persecution.