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The present paper examines images of the baby as monster, observed in an adolescent female patient, and proposed by Jung in the Visions Seminars, with reference to the archetypal figure of Abraxas, also quoted by Jung in the Red Book. Such images bring considerable amount of disruptive anxiety to the life of individuals and represent transpersonal and paradoxical coagulation of psychic fragments that—in a strenuous dialogue/conflict—can create substantial movement within the analytic relationship. My choice is to analyse these elements within the framework of the adolescent mind, adolescence being a configuration where monsters and re-narrated babies are—in various ways—always present. Jung and Bion, particularly the trilogy Memoir of the Future, will give theoretical support to the clinical material.