ABSTRACT
This chapter will discuss situations in which the analytic process appears to be productive while at the same time a chronic enactment is taking place, imperceptible to both members of the dyad. A sudden event undoes the chronic collusion. This event, acute enactment, leads to contact with once sealed-off primitive traumas, the consciousness of which will be experienced as intolerable. The facts described will become clearer when illustrated in a clinical situation.
