Towards the end of his life, the psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi proposed the notion of Orpha, the protective psychic fragment that we can perceive in patients who have experienced massive traumas. This clinical paper explores this concept and the role of the psychoanalyst's orphic function in the transferential relationship, and tenderness, a notion little used in psychoanalysis, which can appear in this link, like a tool enabling the relationship between analyst and patient.