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The starting point of this article is the clinical consultation of a young girl suffering from severe insomnia. It describes how the use of projective identification in relation to her mother, who suffers from the same symptom, prevents this girl from inhabiting her psychic body as a child, but traps her in her mother’s psychic body suffering. The mother is herself blocked in an adaptation pathology. It is followed by a description of how some adults resort to the reality of procreation, when their 'child part’ in analysis remains so enclosed and inaccessible to internal emotional representation. The child, being given birth to, becomes at last visible and materializes a possible emotional link to the adult’s lost, enclosed or crystallized, childhood.