ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case of a woman who is a psychologist. The patient complains about her studies and work, in an attempt to provoke emotions in the analyst and to reverse the perspective, as if the analyst were the most important person in the room: "How pretty she is". The chapter discusses author's two mutually exclusive hypotheses about supervision A36: the analyst did not apprehend Wilfred Bion's advice; she did apprehend it, albeit unconsciously, and attacked (hated) her own apprehension to the point of asking a question whose ethos runs contrary to what Bion said. For the analyst discharges a fully-fledged "psychosomatic theory" linking the teratoma with teeth, with no empirical evidence to back it up. In supervision A36 one has, in a compact form, Bion's lifetime attempts to make explicit both limitations and possibilities of achieving psychoanalytic observations of the immaterial realm.
