This article describes the first stages of the treatment of a schizophrenic patient who is violently opposed to care. This violence is understood as the impossibility of investing the object, which endangers the patient’s own Ego. The therapeutic situation requires that the object be imposed on the patient, which leads to an erotomaniac-type relation. The end of war that has been imposed in this way takes different forms; what is at stake in the end is separation and loss.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 47-60.