`titrebAbout a clinical case of anorexia: the stakes between transferential and theoretical inferences`/titrebEncounters with patients suffering from anorexia generate an uncanny resonance. Faced with the frailness of the patient’s body presented as a personification of the living dead, the clinician cannot avoid the question of life and death, whether in a mode of transference or in the real world of the clinical dialogue. Here, the authors start by presenting a psychotherapy session with a young anorexia nervosa patient to show how interweaving transference-countertransference movements unveiled the underlying network interlacing Other with Self, exposing a possible psychopathological lecture of what might be called a « paradigm of anorexia ».