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This article presents a reflection and a clinical example of the tact-pulsion as defined by Régine Prat. Referring to Didier Anzieu's notion of the skin-ego, the paper proposes that the basic psychic envelope is a tactile membrane that forms the embryonic subjectivity. Sometimes this membrane is deficient and causes a kind of narcissistic hemorrhage. With the help of Tito, who experiences an abrupt separation to which he reacts by withdrawing into himself, the therapeutic intervention seeks to reactivate in the session a vital experience of initial touch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author proposes a reflection upon the complex articulation of the Winnicottian thinking about object relations. In his text about the use of objects, Winnicott highlights the use of destructive drive to grant a character of alterity to the object, and independence to the subject, based on the contact with its drive core. In his theorizing about the transitional object, Winnicott highlights the sensory and perceptive character of this relation, which opens up to the encounter with the non-Self object, without risking the annihilation of the subject's psychic life, responsible for expanding and enriching its mental recipient and identification processes. In order to deal with this contradiction regarding the presence of the object in the subject's mental life, Bollas' concept regarding the integrity of the object becomes useful. Emotional experiences are related to the objects that trigger them. According to Bollas, we build our language through the intelligence of the forms, configuring our life through the choice of objects that hold completeness. The integrity of an object holds such a structure that is potentially able to give rise to new associative and elaborative processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]