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This article contributes to the study of the concept of corporal melancholy as a singular somato-psychic configuration at play in some cases of obesity. Starting with a theoretico-clinical report, we demonstrate the intrication of transferential movements and bodily modifications in a hyperphagic obese patient. Her “de-melancholizing” attempts, that is, detachment from the incorporated maternal body, will go through a certain number of procedural vicissitudes. Among them, a bulimic episode, an episode of depersonalisation as well as a hypomanic phase, embodied in a brief anorexia. These all display the great difficulty this patient has in accepting the necessary passivity of loss. These phases also reveal the coexistence of a grandiose, triumphant ego, masking primary melancholic shame.