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The first years of face-to-face work with Martin were marked by the image of the trained bear, shown by a mediaeval mountebank, and the irresistible drowsiness it engenders. There were no apparent delusions and there was a constructed history: where was the psychosis? But gradually, within the solid walls that protected him from the invasion of psychosis, a breach was opened through which we could discover an infinite universe, a desolate galaxy, violent, populated by planets that are connected to each other only by gravitational attraction. Martin was then a cosmonaut, dressed in his exoskeleton, drifting between the stars by putting all his energy into avoiding being absorbed by this or that sun of absolute heat. The appearance during the therapy of dreams that began to construct representations and links with affects is seen as an evolution of the psychic organization towards a real capacity for fantasy.