In this paper the authors consider how culture ‘imagines’ gendered subjectivities, particularly for adolescents. The ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ are part of a changing imaginary in psychoanalysis and culture. Preconceptions, including those related to gender, are examined and potentially reimagined by both patient and analyst during a psychoanalysis. The authors relate clinical material from a fourteen-year-old girl whose mother considered her behaviour towards her brother too aggressive. We present a series of clinical moments between this girl and her female analyst and suggest that culture-bound experiences of the feminine are dreamed anew in these moments. The authors introduce the concept of transitory objects. In contrast to the transitional objects described by Winnicott (1971), transitory objects have the function of sketching out a map between disorganizing areas of relational marginality and areas of meaningful contact. Objects with high sensory potential (such as plastic and color) recreate bodily and emotional transit, rich in sign and movement. We suggest that the flow of transitory objects improved the patient's capacity to transform sensations and raw emotions into waking dreaming. The authors also reflect on how attempts to redefine concepts in relation to the masculine and feminine can still be trapped in old assumptions.