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In the analysis of a survivor of the Holocaust, for years the analysand spoke only of his inability to choose between two women and said nothing of any memories of his early childhood, of his emotions and fantasies, or of any transference. After having tested the analyst's counter-transference for several years, he was finally able to find the words to express his murderous transference. The author emphasizes the importance of the analyst's active listening, of the predominance of the affects over the representations, and of the non-transferential interpretations by anticipation charged with affect. If psychoanalysis is a science in many regards, its practice is above all an art.