⟪A child is dead⟫.: Activity, passivity, what has become of these concepts?

An moment in the treatment of a patient evokes the thesis developed by Catherine Chabert and illustrated in its account by a patient. A melancholic episode bars the way to change denouncing a difficult access to passivity understood as the capacity to welcome the action of the other in-itself. An elaboration of this moment and in particular a masochistic identification with the father enables objectal libido to be set going again.