We seek to examine intrapsychic elements in renouncing motherhood. Very few psychodynamic studies are dedicated to this question of renouncing motherhood. Our psychodynamic analysis are stemming from interviews with a young woman and a projective test : the Thematic Apperception Test. The results reveal an unsatisfying early relationship with the mother, an inadequately supportive maternal imago, a repudiation of passive potentialities and a symmetric form of coupling.