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This paper attempts to situate the link between reactional mourning to the loss of the object and its end result as a somatisation, based on clinical observation and the resources found in Freudian metapsychology. What comes to light is the process of "incorporation" of the loss and the readjustment of the relationship between the libido of the ego and the libido of the object in traumatic circumstances. "Melancholisation" is situated in the body, due to the "repatriation of the fantasy" in its autoerotic effects as is seen in hypochondriacal behavior in the wounded body. Thus, the "physical" unbinding effects of trauma, between the life drive and the death drive, can be taken into account. These perspectives open the way for a clinical understanding of the body in its unconscious function, that is, in its drive-related dimension.