Reflecting on her experiences during the first months of the Covid-19 crisis, the author describes how in transference and counter-transference early fears could be stirred up in a way that inner figures “offered” themselves - and for a time could dominate the situation - who tried to assert in an intimidating way their alternative view of what was required for “salvation” as the only morally justifiable one with quite some pressure. She conceptualises this figure as a pathological superego, acting with “therapeutic zeal”, a furor sanandi, rather than carrying out an epistemophilic enquiry. She provides clinical vignettes to show how it might have taken a good piece of inner work in the counter-transference to reorient oneself and examine the realities one was dealing with. The question “What feeling brings you to me—fear or hope?” from Sophocles' King Oedipus structures her contribution on the exploration of the various fears and expectations, she encountered during the Covid-19 crisis in the analytical situation. She concludes with observations and reflections in the institutional context during that time.