Increasing social demand addressed to psychology imposes it to relieve civilization’s malaise by individual psychotherapy, conceived as “subjective right”. This move opposes today’s dominating logic in psychiatry, formulated in an allegedly universal language, deriving from the statistical approach. Here we argue on two points: 1) Any scientific approach cannot be detached from its standpoint, with its own methods and deontology. A universal language is thus illegitimate in the first place. 2) Distinguishing the singular (subjective) and collective standpoint is imperative, just like the necessity to separate clinical ethics from the defense of the society. Psychoanalysis radicalizes this opposition.