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The waiting room opens onto a vestibule. The main door to the analyst's office is to the right on the near end of this vestibule, whose far end is created by a curtained-off doorway. Behind this doorway is the analyst's study. From his office, the analyst is able to enter this study directly, thanks to a second private office door which opens into it.
Taking advantage of a free hour that day, he busies himself in his office doing “I don't know what.” When he hears someone calling his name from the study, through the private half-opened door separating his office from it, he encounters the big smile of one of his patients, almost an hour early for his appointment. The smile is met with surprise. Nevertheless, the analyst receives the analysand who begins to recount in detail one of his recent projects. A cartographer by profession, he has just finished plotting the geographical features of the territory of the foreign country he is mapping. It is a rural area bisected by mountainous terrain and adjacent, in part, to the sea.
The countryside and the animals that live there remind him of the story of a bet he recently made during a visit to one of his friends who owns a restaurant. At lunchtime his friend invites him to order anything he likes. Studying the menu, he selects the most expensive entree: pheasant. The friend, who is treating him to the meal, seems irritated by this expensive choice. The conversation becomes a bit tense, but the analysand continues to laugh and joke around. Before leaving the restaurant he tells his friend, “I'll