This paper presents an analysis of a Holocaust survivor's daughter as a developmental process in which the self is reconstructed anew. The satisfactory experiences in the analyst-infant dyad create a feeling of basic trust and a forward developmental movement. The infant becomes a child who, by communicating through non-verbal ways in a permissive atmosphere, achieves enough sense of security to be able to verbalize feelings. The development of a new self representation is associated with a growing sense of separateness from the analyst as well as from primary object representations. Differentiation is made possible by working through conscious, as well as unconscious, processes of identification which were expressed through the body. Better integration of the self is due to the internalization of the analyst as an emotional adequate container.