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Anxious identifications generate a process of disaggregation and decomposition of the body-ego in which the ego is reduced to the breach or intrusion that it suffers. Borderline dreams will express the disturbing power of distortion that this type of specular image holds. They will even strengthen the conviction that the scenarios at work have an unshakeable value of destiny. The anxious identifications underlying these (de) identifying scenes thus have the power of modifying the metaphorical resources not only of the analysand but also of the analyst. To thwart this process of de-metaphorization, analytic elaboration will have to favour a form of archaic hysterization which will not only permit a recollection of early traumatic experiences but will favour a reconfiguration of the psychic envelopes or formal signifiers on the basis of constructions or interpretations that give priority to the use of synesthetic metaphors.