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Clinical work with certain borderline patients opens up perspectives in which the fantasized body, the real body, can suddenly invade transference and counter-transfe­rence. The body, sometimes mutilated by scarification, damaged by suicide attempts, shows itself, shows too much of itself. The management of patients whose bodies are front of stage, as much in reality as in the system of representation, can thus take the form of a body combat, as a representation of the face-to-face relationship, from unconscious to unconscious, between patient and therapist. But this “body-to-body” goes beyond the meeting, it goes as far as the creation of a third body, a hybrid body, a “chimera” body at the boundary between unconscious and preconscious, in the sense as understood by Michel de M’Uzan.