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The author suggests comparing the term ‘passibility’, chosen by Scarfone, with the Freudian concept of passivity that emphasises the other’s involvement in his effect on the subject and the intrinsic excitation in the analytic situation. This comparison is linked with three concepts: the deadlocked, which repeatedly calls on the past experienced as such and entails the passive position; soldering—or psychic clothing—that holds a force of attraction between the raw excitation and representations; pain, a radical effraction of boundaries, which reveals the place vacated by the ego itself. When the ‘actual’ captures the intersection of place and time, the pain of the transference, engraved in an intermediate space–time, allows the paradoxical cathexis of a sensitive body–psyche and an emergence of meaning in a process of symbolisation.