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Jean “suffers” from the compelling need to disappear or rather efface himself as soon as a loving relationship is established, with the result that, in the end, there is “nothing left”… After a reversal of situation, he felt he was no longer the perpetrator but the victim and decided to seek help. His treatment was an opportunity for him to tell the story of a childhood history marked by the discontinuity of his mother’s presence due to a serious depression and remoteness that was necessary in order to undergo cancer treatment. Thus, effacement was the “key word” characterizing Jean’s childhood and adult life, effacement of the other and of himself. This is not a psychoanalytical concept in the strict sense of the word, but can be seen here as a process of negativization of psychic life resulting from the defusion of the drives, making it possible to fight against the emergence of certain ideational contents. It thus becomes an ultimate defensive recourse against an object that has become threatening for the ego.