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“It was an accident!” This frequently heard ejaculation marking the beginning of so many individual or conjugal interviews about an unplanned pregnancy leads the author to question the supposedly unexpected nature of that fertilisation, at that particular time and for that couple. Time suddenly seems to stand still, the subjects are stunned, as if that conception came in, at that particular moment, to question the intersubjective bonds both for each member of the couple individually and for the couple itself. Family histories are conjured up, and unconscious alliances reworked or at least begin to emerge in the neo-group that we form during these interviews that sometimes lead to a request for individual or marital therapy. Could such unexpected pregnancies be a symptom intruding into the couple’s history?