ABSTRACT
The free-floating attention required of the analyst is simply the counterpart of the rule of free association prescribed for the patient on the condition that the people consider that transmission always takes place indirectly. Now, whether it is a matter of forms that offer themselves as such or of effects of the acting of the transference, the activity of distortion imposed by the censorship scrambles the systems of semantisation directly. A man whose analysis was marked by intense excitation maintained by relations with multiple partners had sought for a long time to keep the author on tenterhooks by telling all about his adventures. About a year later – and how can the author speak about the intermediate processes of weaving – for a brief period, he asked the author repeatedly if he could use the author toilet at the beginning of the session.
