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The “affectionate current,” whose theoretical history we retrace here, is said to reflect the quality of filtration necessary at the beginning of psychic life and capable, above all, of directing the charges of excitation, the sensual charges (passing through the organs of the senses), toward their subjective appropriation in the playful enlargement of the capacities of the self (autoeroticism, transitionality, introjection, and non-incorporation). This configuration is apparently lacking in the construction of the borderline subject, either due to an excess of sensuality (cases of early abuse), or to a lack of tender adjustments (psychic unavailability of the parents); these two mechanisms could naturally be strengthened. The biography of Georges Simenon and his work show how the lack of tenderness marks the contents of our minds with a hypersensitivity, even a hypersexualizationt, which, at the risk driving all creativity back into the snares of borderline functioning, calls for transformation (trance-formation) and control. This reading also points to the trend toward intergenerational transmission of the lack of tenderness.