By closely following the long psychoanalytic journey of a girl, the purpose of this book addresses key issues of childhood psychosis. Psychoanalysis with young psychotic children is not at all an educational or adaptive process but a journey of a child towards the formation of subjectivity.

In this journey, the psychoanalyst is faced with many questions, such as: what happens at the beginning and the end of transference, what can be achieved in the analysis with the psychotic child, and why do some analyses progress while others stagnate. The responsibility of the psychoanalyst is crucial, as if they can articulate a symbolic discourse, then the child is also given the opportunity to express their own questions that have been etched into the reality of their body. Questions that often surprise the psychoanalyst and compel them to reassess them. For psychoanalysis with psychotic children is ultimately a continuous struggle between life and death.