The author explores absence as a quality of an oedipal object, that is, partially unavailable to be occupied by another. Such an object presupposes access to a topography in which the superego has its origin in “two identifications capable of being tuned with each other in some way or other”. Clinical situations in which the phantasy of the primal scene is actualized are valuable opportunities for elaborating this agency. This allows for the advent of a psychic space unsaturated by excitation, where the latter can be linked up with bodily sensations. It is in when the subject frees himself from his inclusion in these equivalents of the primal scene that there is a possibility of cathecting drive functioning inscribed in one’s own body. This long-term evolution is illustrated by a clinical situation.