We analyse certain productions of object relations found in the borderline clinic as well as in addictions and in some mourning situations. These productions are of a narcissistic kind, and have a double value: death/alive, protector/persecutor. They create a configuration made of three elements, a self that cannot sustain an intrapsychic conflict, a movement of throwing out by projection – which represents a dispossession of intolerable parts of the self – and last, the production of a significative object relation, which substitutes representation labour. The “borderization” which this configuration implies acts as a paradigm. As such, it allows to maintain diversity of clinical pictures under this common configuration, in a different and complementary way of the nosographic approach of borderline.
Borderline; significative object; paradigm; projective configuration