Resistance is understood here as a posture, or even a practice, of refusing to collaborate with an anti-democratic regime. In clinical practice, it is often in relation to work that the question of resistance arises in the treatment: ambivalence towards “ethical suffering”, when the patient, under the pressure of the new managerial domination, finds him or herself obliged to lend their support to practices that moral sense disapproves of. The psychic risk involved is first of all to compromise the ethical conditions of sublimation and to damage the entire psychosomatic economy. The ambivalence between resisting or submitting can be worked through, provided that we look back at the conditions of early childhood that were imposed on the child, either of having had to enter into conflict with the other adult who tolerated him or her (the core of autonomy), or, on the contrary, or of having had to capitulate under the effect of the adult's violence (“predisposition” to voluntary servitude).