ABSTRACT
Victor exhibited an exaggerated narcissistic orientation at his workplace. On many occasions, while on the couch, he would talk about his activities between his psychoanalytic sessions. However, when he talked about the fire in the family room Victor presented it as an external event that had taken place outside his own involvement. It could be understood as putting a fire out and saving the analyst's life, and Victor as the analyst's saviour could be the unspoken transference. Expected deaths and needing a saviour were aspects of Victor's developmental years. Dr. Adeline brought Victor's habit of adjusting the rug to his awareness and made a link between it and his being perceived, at age eleven, as a "disaster protector". Victor realised that his parents had certain deficiencies; they were not able to take good care of Richard and therefore they obliged Victor to do it.
