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Finding oneself sometimes in front of, sometimes “on the other side of the looking glass,” that is to say, with a body that is sometimes closed or sometimes open and invisible, is to be exposed to frightening metamorphoses which can lead certain subjects to doubt their own belonging to “humankind.” This article explores new notions, such as the fantasy of a beheaded body, the unconscious identification with sound resulting in the breaking of a bond, and, in the context of transference, the game of the living-dead and the dimensions of acts of birth as well as the identifying mirror. This research also questions the compulsions that create a countenance and stage a third party, as well as the functions of phobias for a body that sometimes grasps itself as invisible, non-closed or non-born. The presentation of a clinical case allows us to think the becoming of these formations through creative processes put in play between the analyzed and the analyst.