ABSTRACT
An attack against the analyst’s capacity for perception occurs in chronic enactment, as he fails to realise that he is involved in collusions with his patient. This reduction of perception or, we might say, this stupidity is usually associated with arrogance and it blocks the perception of the same stupidity. A study of clinical facts shows that this stupidity protects the dyad from traumatic contact with triangular reality. Paradoxically, its apparent accentuation shows that such contact is possible, and constitutes acute enactment.
