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Beginning with the initial dream of an analytic patient, this author illustrates and develops her thesis concerning her role in person in her practice. She is concerned with the transformation of such elements as the factual reality of the person of the analyst, and how such elements serve to create in the patient, in his or her psychic reality, what she terms the analyst in person, the central reference in the development of the transference neurosis. The construction of the analyst in person depends on and finds support in the person of the analyst in reality, but there is still a separation between the two, with one source for the construction in reality and the other in the patient's childhood. Couvreur examines her patient's dream to show how the analyst in person is actually the product of a transformation comparable to the dream work carried out by the patient, who reweaves real elements linked with the analyst's person and the analyst's environment into a fantasied relation with another person from the patient's own past.
In spite of the well-known and familiar asymmetry of the analytic relationship, the development of the analyst in person occurs not just from the patient's point of view, but corresponds, from the side of