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In this account of couple therapy, the author alternates between clinical histories and subsequently elaborated theoretical analyses. The questions having served to underpin her reverie allowed for the metabolisation of the psychological material brought in and fostered the search for an avenue of release by the couple that was closed into a deathly mode of functioning. This avenue was made possible by the reverie of the group (patients and therapist) that led to its working out, its fecundity and creativity. The author formulates the hypothesis that the initial demand presented as relating to a “communication problem” turns out to be the precipitate of a submission to the sway of the father and his refusal of the feminine (thus locking out free speech). Support from the group constituted by the couple and the clinician, their fecund reverie and their setting to work led them to elaborate the structuring of the origin and the default of its organisation related to the secret