ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author uses the term 'interruption' to refer to discontinuing analysis for some reason or other, without excluding the possibility of later resumption. Interruption excites great fear and is seen as negative, or at least as a sign of failure, of deficiencies in the patient, or in the analyst, or in the analytic couple. The patient, who had been treated with relative success in vis-a-vis psychotherapy that enabled to achieve sufficient integration and acquire a certain capacity for work, comes to an agreement with the psychotherapist. As an analyst, the author have experienced very few, and treated seriously ill patients more frequently than neurotic patients. The author addresses the subject of stupidity because it is a life-saving defence mechanism that is based, in some way, on interrupting the relationship between areas of oneself and, consequently, with the other.
