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In this article we are going to discuss the link between the traumatic loss of a parental figure during childhood, the difficulty of metabolizing it in words, and weight gain. After the breach that trauma causes in the system of “excessive excitation,” the individual’s drives disintegrate. The subject is then faced with a confusion between hunger and desire. By drawing on real clinical cases, on the model of breastfeeding as an important component in the introjection of a reassuring object, and on the rites of the funeral meal, which aims to share guilt between brothers, we have noted that incorporation is a mechanism of melancholic identification that tries to simultaneously bury and devour the lost object.