Abstract: This article is available in French only. The article approaches the issue ofmetaphoric language in the patients'discourse, that have a polymorphicsymtomathology, includingpsychosomatic and addictivemanifestations. This reflection issupported by D Anzieu's perspectives onskin-ego, F. Marty's view concerningoperative thinking, and De M'Uzan'smetaphor in cure. Based on the clinicalillustration in R. Matei's paper, thehypothesis according to whichcountertransferential ≪ fractures ≫ in theanalyst's identity would correspond tofractured areas in the analysand'smetaphorical discourse settles into shape.