ABSTRACT
I now wish to illustrate more extensively the part played by a patient's unconscious cues, and how these contributed to the effectiveness of the resulting analysis.
I had to discover how to read the cues of this patient, which I did by trial-identifying with her or with the objects of her relating. From this way of listening it was possible to recognize what the patient was needing that she had not been finding. She dramatically demonstrated her need for clear boundaries to the analytic relationship, and for a genuinely neutral space in which she could become autonomously herself.
