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— The author examines L. Danon-Boileau’s theory of the « nostalgic speech » that is in question in the context of interminable analysis. Might one then pose that the analyst’s reticence to renounce a form of « oceanic » listening that effectively exacerbates the subject’s hallucinatory capacity, also be conceived of as an inversed and transferential expression of the lack of representation of the child in the maternal psyche? Is there consequently not also a risk that the seductive power of the « poetic » complaint that is addressed to the object will then mask the pain that results not only from the lack of an « object that receives » but especially of an object that is capable of welcoming into its psyche the cry of the distressed subject? The fear of being abandoned is then considered, not this tile in the context of the object’s absence but in that of the fear of the loss of the love that accompanies the object’s disappearance. The anxiety in question here thus concerns the representation of a precarious internal object that consequently hinders the work of mourning and separation.