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The purpose of this article is to discuss the contributions of projective tests to the psychodynamic understanding of women sexual offenders. On the basis of a clinical case study, we show how projective methods support the processes of symbolization with regard to the difficulties of integration of the traumatic subjective experience, to summon the associative work by the phantasmatic call and the reactivation of sensory and representational experiences from ambiguous material. From there, we envisage in what way, the projective tests participate in accounting for the dynamics and the complexity of the psychic processes in which the sexual offenders are inscribed. And in the clinic of sexual offenders, how do these methods support a mediation space in the subject/clinician relationship?