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Margaret Little (1901-1994) accomplished important work with psychotics and borderline personalities alongside Winnicott in England, work that was for a long time unknown in France. From her work on her own psychotic structure, she decided to become an analyst and to devote herself to limit-cases, who see themselves as non-persons. In this way, she set up a practice that extended some of Freud’s intuitions, insisting particularly on taking into account of the pre-infantile (“one body relationship”), out of the necessity of regression in limit-cases and the part of countertransference as an interactive ability for the analyst to work with the patient.