The attempt to define a particular technique for the treatment of obsessives is justified by their particular type of resistance, which, in turn, is dependent upon the characteristics of their affective structure. Among others, the author quotes from the studies of Bouvet, who distinguishes three phases in the treatment of these patients. The first involves the analysis of the specific types of transference found in obsessives (homosexual transference in men and aggressive heterosexual transference with the wish to castrate in women). The second part of the treatment consists of analysis of the fantasies of incorporation and of the projections related to them; to be effective, this must lead to a reliving of these fantasies on an affective plane. The third phase involves the reconstruction of the ego and the liquidation of the transference neurosis which leads to the formation of full, adult object relationships.