The author starts from the clinical observation of a connection between imago-functioning and hypercathexis of the skin. After revisiting the origins of the term imago, he reflects on the conditions of the ego-superego gap by means of which agency-based functioning will take precedence over imago-functioning. Freud conceives the post-oedipal superego as secondary to the impersonalization of the primary parental imagos. The ego must at the same time work on its resistance to the attraction of imagos. By maintaining a confusion with the other, the allergic object-relation opposes the operation of loss as a precondition of independence towards the object. The absence of stranger-anxiety is one of the early semiological signs. The analysis of a woman patient reveals a fantasy of a common skin maintaining the primary mother-infant dyad. Releasing the imago depends on re-establishing the ego as being first a bodily-ego. Non-symboligenic desexualization requires a process of resexualization that tends towards a new desexualization, this time symboligenic.