ABSTRACT
In the course of treatment the analyst avails himself of the patient’s neurotic part, with its minimal capacity for verbalization, in order to establish a transference relationship. In other words, if on the basis of some of Freud’s writings we may infer that in every psychotic there is a neurotic part, this part could be the basis for the establishment of a transference relationship in accordance with Freud’s own definition. Charles’s father had been orphaned at 9, and his maternal grandfather, who had lived with them, had died painfully of cancer. The grandfather, of whom Charles was very fond, had slept in the room next to his and spent many months there in agony before his death. The patient came regularly to his sessions, often accompanied by one or another member of his family, but sometimes alone. During the week in which the patient became disorganized, his communication with the author was characterized by greater emotion and affection.
