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Although hatred is the driver of primal repression « maintained by a counter-cathexis of the separation of swallowing and spitting » (L.K.), this separation explodes in the outburst of drive violence experienced by a young woman during labour and in contact with her infant’s body: a girl. Spitting occurs in this woman’s initial rejection of her baby and returns in the transference in analytic psychotherapy, as a spitting that is repeated from mother to daughter, from daughter to analyst-mother. Spitting vectorises the destructive drive through its transferential negativity. This drive is transformed throughout the treatment, which allows an introjection of the analytic work and also a return through questioning to this patient’s very earliest narcissistic identifications with the mother and the father.