A broad expansion of a series of social representations and practices that call for looking at contemporary social events through a psychological lens has led to a sociology of the individual that resorts abusively to psychology. It is in the reciprocal motion between the «sociological» and the «psychological», rather than by way of a psychologized reading of the social or a sociologized reading of the psyche, that we can grasp the features of the contemporary individual's own subjective domain. As legitimate as may be a purely psychological understanding, it has to resort to a widened and plural register of interpretation. We are thus obliged to: