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In the arts, retrofuturism rests on the representations of the future that have taken place in the past and on their influence in the current creation. The emergence of retrofuturism as a mass cultural phenomenon occurred with the film Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott (1982), with references to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). These inclusions are characteristic of the retrofuturist fiction in which the persons and the themes of the imaginary past are merged. In family psychoanalysis, retrofuturistic hypotheses meet the questions we ask ourselves about the future of our patients. Countertransference effects have led us to imagine a presumable future. Are there traces of them when therapies are resumed 10 or 20 years later ? Have these signals of a future once imagined made a creative work possible ?