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The concept of a soul that is ? more bodily than the mind ? (F. Coblence) is initially examined in its connections with the ? incarnation ? of certain patients in analysis and with the ? recorporation ? of major psychic sufferings. The key role of affect and its positive or negative hallucinatory quantum is emphasised. The author then puts forward the conception that hallucinatory experience is at the source of the concept of the soul. The text concludes with the approach to death in its relations with hallucination, where the ego is sometimes sacrificed in favour of the life of the soul in a delusional solution. The soul then becomes synonymous with ? kernel of life ? as ultimate barricade against psychic and somatic death.