The authors deal with violence within the couple as far as marital dynamics and crisis are concerned. Their work is based on two clinical cases leading the authors to what extent domestic violence ought to be examined in a dynamic perspective as a combination of the individual life story, the psychic functioning modalities together with the construction, experience and movement of the conjugal relationship. More specifically, the authors discuss the hypothesis of the repetition of violence as an attempt to elaborate both the trauma and the defeat of the containing and shielding functions of the couple’s psychic envelope. They conclude on the implications of clinical work with the couple who is author/victim of domestic violence.