Clinical work with borderline, melancholic, or neurotic patients presenting autistic enclaves reveals difficulties in cathecting thought that have a negative impact on the cathexis of the paths of identification, both of the past and of the analytic relationship. Attention therefore needs to be focused, within the analytic process itself, whether in BPP or in a prolonged face-to-face situation, on restoring the libidinal background needed to maintain and develop the way patients perceive themselves.