Patients with severe traumata (of separation) within the first year of life often already activate fragments of trauma reaction during the first sessions of treatment. Their expected retraumatization is defended against by a reaction of flight from the analysis. By presenting case reports, the author shows how her early construction of an inner similarity between the threat of breaking off analysis on the one hand, and early trauma on the other hand, creates confidence in the analytic relationship. In the subsequent process, the deepened affective experiencing of trauma reaction in countertransference and transference increasingly forms metaphorical and verbal—i. e., symbolic—representation. In this way, the new construction of representations (of a protecting, motherly object and of a coherent, infantile self) occurs. After that, the trauma reaction can increasingly be worked through as a defense of oedipal conflicts, according to standard psychoanalytic technique. In its successful result, the treatment leads to a transformation of the trauma by a successive change of its intrapsychic representation.