Based on Bion's notion of the selected fact, this text singles out the éclat of traces by its sudden appearance, blinding nature and instinctual charge resulting from fragmentation. The analyst, in a position of vigilance, mobilizes his or her negative capability, retrogressive capacity and temperance to receive the formless and to dream the unelaborated residues, thereby opening up the possibilities of semantic polysemy. Psychoanalysis is a living resistance to contemporary destructiveness.