The chief hazard for female analysts has been that of avoidance and dissociation of erotic experiences in the clinical situation with a male patient, often leading to the patient's leaving the treatment. These defences remain in place for the analyst when she has both a personal and a professional institutional history that has precluded the use of her erotic transference and counter-transference. This is because the classical position of interpreting erotic transference as resistance defends against the analyst's staying with this transference to analyze and symbolize it so the analysand might derive meaning from it. An extended clinical example illustrates this dilemma.