This article aims at presenting and discussing several traits of the central phobic position, a term coined by André Green to convey the defensive position taken by some borderline patients, expressed in the session mainly as avoidance of free association. This should be understood as a manifestation of the negative; its aim is the avoidance of the catastrophic resonance of traumatic intersections that dominate the patient's psychic organisation. Thus the unbearable grouping of traumas (which reactivate the experience of the primary murder-excorporation of the object, along with the ensuing guilt and despair) is the crucial element that imposes an immobilisation of psychic functioning and foreclosure of psychic reality. By means of literary examples, the author of the article endeavours to show the specificity of the central phobic position as a mode of associative behaviour. He also attempts to trace resonances of the central phobic position through other important psychoanalytic concepts.