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In Brazil, the laws forcing companies to hire handicapped people open the door to ambiguous behaviors by both public and private labor organizations. The idea of these subjects’ social insertion is a contemporary phenomenon. Considered incapable since antiquity, they have been historically excluded from the labor world. Nowadays, sheltered by a “social responsibility” and “citizenship” discourse, organizations use their so-called “ethical codes” as employee control codes, and they do so with only their interests in mind. These organizations still do not present handicapped people with good conditions for insertion, and the employer’s behavior towards them can sometimes be “anthropophagous” or “uncivil.” In conclusion, this paper discusses clinical concerns and compares the unconscious motions or the psychic mechanisms of handicap denial with the subject’s responsibility—the subject being both ethical and political—for his acts toward other people.