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In the logic of passion, an image emerges and invades the field of the visible in a moment of specular jubilation. For the duration of a glance, this image perceived as non-missing captures the being of the subject and freezes the path of the impulse. In this scene of scopic astonishment, the image of the object of passion appears in confusion with the ideal Self, and the object is thus elevated to the rank of sublime ideal. The experience of passion would testify to an impossible mourning and thus, the object of passion would come to corporeate the suicidal object, which is buried and non-specularizable in melancholy. The investment of this object would come to protect the subject from the collapse which threatened him until then and he would now find himself captive of an image coming to fill the void of the mirror. This article is also based on the passion experienced by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, whose logic resonates with an original wound.