This article examines the analyst's resistance in the treatment using the example of a clinical situation in which this resistance manifests itself in the twofold difficulty of remaining silent and intervening in a precise and concise manner. This case is examined in connection with a review of some of Freud's interventions with the Rat Man, as they appear not in the published case but in the diary of the treatment. The analyst's difficulty is then seen as an attachment to a theory or construction underlying the intervention that avoids transference storms and functions for the analyst like a typical dream with no real associations. The ability to dream, interpreted as a capacity to be alone in the presence of the patient, may be found in a moment of humour outside the session for the analyst, allowing the advent of a more flexible analytic superego. The beginnings of a possible interpretation can be found in the silence that had been avoided.