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What is private life, how does it occur and develop (or not) in a subject, or how is it able to more or less stumble and fail? The “clinical experiences of being rather than of the subject” of which autism is the paradigm, allow us to grasp this through the negative, notably from the dissolution, weakening, or mutation of the symptoms in the course of the transferential effects of a psychoanalytical process. After putting forward details concerning the suggested connection between privacy and the feminine, followed by a presentation of the characteristics of autism as a fai­lure of the feminine or of privacy, we will develop, with the support of creative transferential resolutions, the psychic operations (metapsychology) underlying the capacity for intimacy for a subject, as much for him- or herself as with others.