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Echoing the texts by M. Aisenstein and S. Savvopoulos, the author presents a reflection on how affects are treated in the transference movements between patient and analyst. This ? testing ? constitutes a possible means of access in some treatments when the analytic scene seems to have become devoid of representations and affects. The analyst's transition through passivity allows moments to emerge in which boundaries are erased, opening up associative potentialities, and instigating the process impedes the apparent decathexis of representative activity.