ABSTRACT
Albert attributed secret meanings to numbers, which complicated the situation further because one single error in the performance of his rituals meant starting all over again and repeating it a given number of times. At nineteen years old, and after more or less three years since the beginning of the interruption, Albert asked his parents to resume his treatment. Albert is nearing his twenty-first birthday and for the last couple of years he is in psychoanalytic treatment, on the couch. What the author tries to present is rather like a school exercise and cannot in any way constitute a valid clinical viewpoint on Albert’s case, less still an analysis of Samuel Zysman’s practice. The case presented by Samuel Zysman lends itself rather well to the study of the analyst’s explicit and implicit theoretical presuppositions because of the frequency and the clarity of his interventions.
