» By means of a clinical sequence, the author shows the importance and the modalities of the psychical event that represents « the excorporation « of a dead person. This event, arising in the setting of psychoanalytical sessions, and likely to produce an apparent episode of body splitting, may finally precipitate the advent of an « I « sexually identified at last. This transformation of a melancholic potentiality in a subject entails the recomposition of the process associated with the « complex of the Nebenmensch « (Freud), establishing the limits between the subject’s own body and the object, as well as the apprehension of identity and otherness.»