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How can we, at the end of this long pandemic period, understand and take stock of the social, societal, and environmental upheavals that we have experienced in the innermost parts of ourselves, in body and mind, on scales that are unprecedented and difficult to represent? How dazed are we two years on? Here and now, the challenge is to find the right perspective or approach to account for an empirical reality whose effects we are only beginning to appreciate and observe—both on the subject and in the modalities of (re)constitution and transformation of social bonds. As a linguistic being, endowed with the logos that makes it possible to inhabit the world, the other remains the horizon of the subject. In this sense, we are not alone, I am not alone, like a being turned in on itself. I am one among the others, and this plurality invites me to innovate, to invent. For it is now a matter of consenting to freedom for all and strengthening the social fabric in a time of awakening, being the guardians of a discourse that engages what we call humanity.