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This is a fragment from the psychoanalysis of a patient who suffered from asthma from the seventh month of pregnancy until, six months later, she recovered when the infantile Oedipal situation and her unconscious fantasies about it were uncovered in treatment. She feared being left alone with her mother because of strong ambivalence, rebelliousness, guilt, and masochistic submission, and this fear made her repress her mourning at the death of her father. Her husband was also being analyzed. He offered interpretations to his wife, and of these interpretations Gonzalez says, 'Any interpretation made outside the analytic situation will be experienced as an aggression, for it is not supported by the unlimited tolerance experienced in the psychoanalytic treatment'.
The patient had suffered frequent asthmatic attacks until she was six years old. These attacks were her somatic expression of the excitement at the primal scene and represented the patient's sadistic concept of her parents' coitus. When she was six the family moved to a house in which the patient could for the first time have a room of her own; her bronchial asthma then disappeared. Although the asthma disappeared during her analytic treatment, the patient developed 'chronic bronchitis' once again.