Based on fragments of a clinical case, this paper discusses the contribution of phylo and ontogenetic mnemonic traits to the formation of commitments that occur facing the terror of old age. At the same time, it presents the feasibility of clinical support as an alternative to the threat of abandonment that emerges from consciousness of finitude, and highlights the complexity and the importance of psychological work referring to aging as a fundamental condition to listening in transference.
Memory; phylogenesis; aging; abandonment