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The dissipation of thought inhibition on the part of the analyst appears to be connected to hysterical identifications that have arisen in contact with the patient. The latter are linked to the analyst's own infantile neurosis that has been ? civilised ? in his own analysis and professional investments and to a subsequent conflictualisation of the latter on an Œdipal mode that in?fine enables him to reinstall a topical framework for and with the patient, the latter constituting a necessary condition for possible formal regression to take place in the treatment.