The author follows the pathways of violence within the setting in a therapeutic situation underlying a constant, not better defined, state of alarm (of elimination?). She hypothesizes encystments of destructiveness in parts of the patient's body as an attempt to avoid total suicide. She questions whether a sort of countertransferential «not understanding» of the intensity of the violence might have contributed, more or less protectively, to the continuation of the therapeutic relationship, and to the staying alive of the relationship itself, as well as of the protagonists.

KEY WORDS: Countertransferential «not understanding», body, destructiveness, psychosis, suicide.