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In the second topography, Freud attributes the ego with an unconscious portion possessing a function of blind resistance linked to the unconscious sense of guilt and maso-chisM. This negativizing force marks the existence of a third unconscious and the presence of the death drive in the ego. The hypothesis put forward in this report associates this function with an objectalising function marking the presence of Eros. This function generates an inter-nal transitional space of reflexivity receiving and trans¬forming the drive impulses of the id, permitting “detachability”, and producing the matrix of phantasy. The argument is supported clinically by the account of analytic work with a patient.