`titrebAbsence of love and passion... He loves me, he loves me not`/titrebThe absence of love must be distinguished from the inexistence of love. The absence of love is a part of normal neurotic development. The inexistence of love is the manifestation of a psychical organization related to the narcissism of death struggling against being overwhelmed by the drives. In spite of the affective wasteland, the reemergence of sensorial traces in the transference can reanimate the primary relationsip and an emotional past lacking in representation, hardly imaginable.