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… I am worried at the prospect of my interview with Mrs Y. tomorrow – I didn't see her last week because I took her at her word and did give her session to someone else. Naturally she pursued her course of making a damned muddle by turning up and saying she
had not cancelled. When I said I could not change the Monday, she said, “Let's leave it”. Of course ambiguous, and could mean leave it that she was coming. This kind of expression of hostility by shooting the analysis to bits and then running the analyst is a very old gambit and danger – I could not mobilize a legal defence against her financial resources and well she knows it. Well, no one asked me to be a psychoanalyst!…