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The Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1885-1935) displayed an original process in his literary creation in order to maintain a psychic unity threatened by psychotic-inducing tendencies: heteronomy? Such a process, at once conscious and unconscious, offers internal alterity an expressive freedom that suffices to avoid a destructive flare-up. Configuring the ego as a scenic space that is open to internal groupality, the creator produces a work which gives voice to the archaic parts of the self. The recomposition of the identificatory figures who inhabit him allows for a subjective appropriation, whilst giving birth to a group of imaginary authors between whom an autonomous group dynamic develops. Thanks to the reflexive division or doubling of the ego, Pessoa manages, through the diversity of his literary creation, to become the medium for his own ghostly images drawn from his family genealogy.