In order to build up the hypothesis that aesthetics is a strategy to alleviate anguish and to consubstantiate desire, the author seeks to set up a statute for the psychic system. In the field of the subject, aesthetics would be part of the primary narcissism, a moment when the formation of the Ego is witnessed by an image that lends materiality to the subject and to the presence of alterity. To design a perimeter for the void and to be able to see it is to bestow sense to existence and to restrain the anguish of death. Aesthetics would serve the cause of the desire. From scenes of manifest dreams to the image of the erotic object, desire can not dispense with the shape which will grant form to its illusion. It would be incumbent on aesthetics to present the configurations of the repressed and to redeem the creativity of the polymorphic infantile perversion. By means of works of art the author presents aesthetics as a relation between the subjects, mediated by anguish and desire. Investigating the sense of the quest for aesthetics regarded as beautiful, one analyses its role at the present time. Using as a focus the contemporaneous feminine subjectivity, the author points out its double relation with image. Whereas, on one hand, there is an aesthetic discourse expressed by the media making up a body intended for consumption, on the other hand there would be another, an aesthetic commandment stated by the feminine superego imposing the regard of the Other as compensation for or negation of castration. The author concludes his approach of what he named as Infirmities of Beauty by identifying two distinct groups, one made up by subjects who seek the death of the body as a strategy for the survival of the Ego. And another made up by those who adhere to the contemporaneous aesthetic message and are addicted to visibility.