Identifications are anchored to loss in the mode of mourning or melancholia, this is a Freudian truism, but a projective shift can occur in analysis : how is projection at work ? Beyond identifications with lost or abandoned objects, the actualisation of masochism in the transference dynamic is likely to mobilise identifications with the threatening or persecuting objects of seduction and jealousy, which also contribute to the construction of the ego.