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Breathing signals the beginning of life. The analysis of musicians leads to an emphasis on the space where first sensations that will become emotions initiate. If this space communicates with the oral sphere, it finds its breath in respiration. Its variations depend upon muscles from the upper and the lower parts of the body. The psychic-skin, as understood by E. Bick and D. Anzieu, contributes to the constitution of a containing space. From the very first shared gazes, the paternal function provides quality connections and the first processes of symbolization. It seems of great importance among the hypotheses concerning the re-actualization of respiratory memory traces to distinguish what concerns the lifting of repressed fantasies and what is associated with the integration of