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Based on the original traces of the archaic “We” of each partner, the “bond of being in love” constructs a new We, cathected above all in a narcissistic mode, and “re-presenting” the earlier historical/biological pre-form. The “You” (Tu), at first the “Object” desired as an object, becomes an “alter Ego” whose pressure sometimes overflows into identity. Thus sometimes identity conflicts between the individual I and the we, long unconscious, emerge. They reproduce, within the new, passionate relationship, issues from the earliest period of existence, when the psychic boundaries of the Self were still indeterminate. Therefore, a group dimension and use of its concepts becomes necessary to psychoanalytic work.