ABSTRACT
The moment when an analytic treatment begins is rarely contemporaneous with the decision to have regular sessions. A busy “business man”, with an overloaded schedule, who seemed to have little interest in the existence of other human beings, entered analysis. One day, as he was giving an account of a family meal, he named a traditional dessert on his mother's side of the family that he appreciated particularly. Starting from the inflection point crystallised by the pronunciation of this word, the analytic situation was transformed, opening the way for the working-through of drive and libidinal impulses during what was eventually a long analytic journey. In the theoretical developments he offers on the tub, the concept appears as a modelisation of the boundaries between inside and outside that determine the tangential position of the self-preservative position with the internal drive ensemble arising from infantile sexuality.
