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If the destructiveness revealed by somatic disorganization is not at all a diabolical power, but on the contrary a failure of mentalization and a life-threatening deficiency, then all psychoanalysts should be concerned about the risk of drawing out a narcissistically fragile patient. The second drive theory allows us to think psychically overwhelming states in terms of the degree of disintrication of the death and life drives, although there are significant differences between authors. It also gives us the means to think the intricative effects of object investment, involved both in the fabric of transference and counter-transference in the “basic” analytic situation and in situations of narcissistic fragility involving the failure of the internal object and projective potentials, making investment via the object vital so as to reanimate the psyche—which alters the question of interminability by raising the question of palliative psychic treatments.