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The author shows, through the study of some of Ferenczi's most important papers, how the latter contributed to psychosomatic reflection through the attention he gave to the vicissitudes of the development of the ego and its drives in relation to the external world. These vicissitudes can result in particular splitting modes which constitute solutions for the individual. Their failure can put him at somatic risk. The author argues that the works written during the period from 1926 through 1933 implicitly harbor a psychosomatic model, and discusses some elements of the latter model.;