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This article considers how acting out sets into action the winnicottien experience of illusion which grows melancholy when the processes of organisation of the subjective trace remain “unachieved”. Violent and destructive acting out present themselves as a replay of the unachieved process of illusion which repeats itself by inverting itself, the subject having no other solution than to echo that which was lost in the reflection of the primary mirror. The points of mortification of the subjective position which leave a feeling of non-sense as a trace, of strangeness and particularly of narcissistic incapacity, all lead to borderline experiences of identity negociation where the game with the dead/death becomes the only mirror (and the only exit) of subjective identity creation. Using the singularity of the perceptive visual field as a starting point, supported by the Rorschach test, the authors propose to question how this field reveals and awakens the vagaries of primary subjective construction and the reflexive experience inherent in it.