In honor of the 100th anniversary of Freud's publication of his first psychoanalytic case study on hypnotic cure, the author examines the wide spectrum in Freud's clinical observation of what constituted his patient's “opposition.” It was the very act of acknowledging this “opposition” and the affect belonging to it, as well as the resentment active in the countertransference, that provided the cure. The conjecture of there being opposition in the face of an existing volitional paralysis—the