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The virtual is often criticized as a new addictive substance for adolescents. Here we will adopt the viewpoint that this tool fosters the elaboration of depressive capacity before the “I” comes into play in the real. Screen and body of the subject, the computer seems to be a first place of symbolization on the way to genuine subjectivation. The virtual, which leads to another space and another time, first enables one to approach the issue of temporality in its relation to loss in a different way. How might the virtual be another place where absence can be appropriated, given that loss of the object engenders the “I?” How can it help in the movement from intemporality to atemporality? This idea will be illustrated by the case of an autistic youth as an archetype of the issue of loss and the passage from the imaginary to the real.