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This paper sets out to highlight the relevance of the first volumes of the journal Connexions (between 1972 and 1976) for current psychosociological intervention in a hypermodern context. Faced with the duplicities of the management-based and normative models currently used in institutions and organizations, the contributions published forty years ago are still amazingly relevant and topical today, allowing young psychosociologists in the field to deal creatively with this context. In the light of these early papers, current questions encountered by psychosociologists in institutional settings are discussed such as the acceleration of time, the place of the imaginary realm in organizations, the tendency to proceduralization, transparency, or again the generalization of a managerial newspeak.