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The author describes the case of a young girl in a day hospital setting whose bond to the primary object, still highly active at adolescence and somatised, is blocking her in the individuation process. Inside the dance studio, a close emotional bond with the therapist is replayed in the transference until the conflict and a separation occur that were impossible elsewhere. By symbolising the inner work that she then undertakes in a place other than the institution, she can resume her psychic growth and experience a more subjectivated adolescence, progressing towards her own “emergence” from adolescence.