The author proposes an anthropological and phenomenological analysis of elderly, from its reality and from its representations in our contemporary societies. Since Sophocles or Freud, and closer of us, Jankélévitch or Debray, of the West African, he follows the mysteries of the lawsuit in dependence and in orderness which is made for the elderly, shameful and subject secret forbids of our modernity which sacrifices continument in sacrosanct paradigm of the "jeunisme". He pleads in favour of a new old age which would not be any more this exiled time, anteroom of to die, but an adventure of life, with its rhythm, its place and its project in itself. double dagger.