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Some children experience a premature relationship characterized by control. Because this control often takes aim at their bodies, it is via their bodies – here through encopresis – that these children try to speak up and resist. On the basis of the psychotherapy of a young boy, the narcissistic issues of this symptom come to light: the attempt to create a psychic and physical space of one’s own and thus refuse the law of control – a systematic negation of alterity. But such a solution seems to be fruitless: the body that fought and resisted now turns into a body that fails and spills out. It thus becomes a mirror that merely offers the child an identification with their own shapelessness. The body thus appears like an Other so as to break this identification. But if this process turns the body into a persecutor, it nevertheless permits the child to preserve their relationship with their love objects.