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Sensorial dismantling and adhesive identification protect the baby from too strong emotional echoes in the relationship, but hinder the affective attunement that would allow them to feel their body in volume and animated. Later in the transferential relationship, the respiratory movements of the patient sometimes underpin his look and thus facilitate his exploration of the space where the other is found, and the expression of emotions that become recognizable. Through identifying with another that breathes, an image of his body as supporting volume is thrown back, supporting drives and primal phantasies.