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From the psychoanalytic model and the critical observations that Bauman and Lipovetsky do about our times, a description of present is made; it is found that confusions and undifferentiated self-objects are controversial features of hypermodernity (Lypovetsky) or liquid modernity (Bauman), because contemporary society does not provide a social framework that hold the relationship mother-baby, but promoted to fill the void that the absence or failures of this relationship brings with excessive consumption. As consequence the significant relationship between the subject and the other are altered and corrupt, bringing privilege to the relation with absence objects than with present objects, creating a barrier to the possibility of building intimacy in relationships with others. By means of a clinical case it is demonstrates the consequences of this confusion, and the difficult process of differentiation, and therefore, the difficulty to establish a meaningful relationship with the other. Finally, the relation between the patient problem, the hypermodern sociocultural logics and the relational difficulties of our times is presented, coming to the conclusion of what it means to fear to interact with the other is it not to allow the emergence of the subject.