This clinical material emphasises an obstacle, which can be considered either as an inconvenience or an opportunity to discover some new unconscious aspect of the material. If it is treated as an inconvenience, the intention would be to eliminate it in order to facilitate associations to a memory. As an opportunity, it will either hint at differences between patient and analyst in this situation, or pose a theoretical challenge.

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