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— With reference to a certain number of clinical situations (borderline states) in which mere verbal language proved to be inadequate, we consider the other modes of communication of non symbolised aspects of the patient that resist being given form by language that are offered to the analyst and the different aspects of the recourse to acts in interpretative activity. We then attempt to situate this form of transference-counter-transferential exchange in a perspective that is able to link drive organisation to early sensory experience.