ABSTRACT
This chapter finds unconscious fantasy in the transference and what Margaret wants to do to her analyst. She looks at Margaret immobilizing her analyst's effectiveness as an attack on the internal mother, but also as a way to keep the mother alive. For Margaret hurting and suffering seem to be a less dangerous way of loving than others or, rather, her only way of loving. She accuses one of her former medical doctors of "manipulating" her badly, which her analyst hears in the transference. She behaves like a patient in a typical analysis but when the analyst emphasizes the positive movement, pain returns to the material. Margaret avoids the psychic path by replying that her body "is processing something horrific". In a very subtle way, the analyst suggests that sleep equals a lowering of watchfulness stimulating the return of the horror.
