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— Sublimation is a “ globalising concept of waiting ” that can serve resistance to analysis on the psychoanalyst’s part, unless we reconsider the question of the ego-body. The author proposes to distinguish “ decorporising ” life sublimations and “ excorporising ” death sublimations giving two clinical examples of the latter. With specific analytic work, these patients can nevertheless succeed in connecting felt and intelligible experience and in recreating, in analysis, the internal sensation of a “ blank-fullness ” at the basis of life sublimating cathexes.