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Psychoanalytic neutrality associated to the psychoanalyst's well-meaning attitude both encourages and invites the patient to project his Superego onto the latter, thereby arousing the patient's castration anxiety. The psychoanalyst's neutrality thus leads him to subject himself to the analytic Superego. F.?Pasche's position and particularly his reference to negative theology is evoked and compared to that of J.?Lacan. The analyst arouses the patient to analytic life via the rhythm of his investment and disinvestments of the latter, just as, according to M.?Fain, a mother favours access to phantasy life in her child. A number of questions are posed on the effect of the patient's death drive on neutrality. The latter is considered in relation both to the analytic Superego and to the analyst's investment and disinvestments of the patient, the analyst's antinarcissism constituting a necessary requirement for creating intimacy in treatment. Neutrality might thus be said to characterise the psychoanalytic character of psychic treatment.