In the most favourable cases, a patient's psychic growth continues after the end of his analysis thanks to self-analysis. This self-analysis is only a solitary process in appearance. It usually requires two transference objects: one in relation to which the self-analysis continues, the other to which the analyst addresses himself mentally, or sometimes in reality through correspondence. This second object plays a central role in maintaining the psychic topography. Its loss explains certain psychotic episodes and its reconstitution explains lasting recovery from such episodes. Some patients only find such an object with a psychoanalyst. In this case they are in analysis or psychotherapy all their lives but can at least lead a life that is worth being lived.