ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case of a young woman, who is blind, with neoplastic disease in a stage diagnosed as terminal: a forthcoming total failure of treatments. It focuses on some ideas and parts of the article, Making the best of a bad job, where Wilfred Bion proposes a lot of questions these are very illustrative for the case presented. The first feature one can draw attention to is the terror caused by transference that Bion is describing. Dealing with terror, to overcome it, leads analysts to contact with reality, which can be very painful and unpleasant and requires them to be courageous. Analytical courageousness is described by the Bion's three principles of life. They are feelings; anticipatory thinking; and thinking, feeling and thinking. Those principles face the problem of idealization that usually is widespread and create complex expectations to the real role of the analyst.
