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At a clinical level, sexual violence regularly faces clinicians with subjects for whom what we call otherness has no truly shareable meaning. Presenting organizations that ranging from borderline disorders to psychoses, these subjects rely on their immediate environment to regulate their psychic life. The victim is the part of this environment to whom this impossible task is assigned, thus denying her quality as an other and, consequently, her subjectivity. This phenomenon of de-objectalization is constant in the clinical treatment of violence. What processes are at work in re-establishing or, in some cases, establishing such subjectivity? What adjustments are necessary in our therapeutic settings in order to organise, together with the perpetrator of sexual violence, favourable conditions that will enable them to develop and then tolerate such a subjectivizing process that could potentially bring out the “other” in them?