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The author raises the question of the archaic superego in the treatment and its connections with Fairbairn's metapsychology. The beginning of the session presented by J.'?L.?Baldacci, in which his patient's archaic superego dominates, leads the author to the idea of an excitational transference transmitted to the analyst. The analyst's intervention is a vehicle of his reflexivity connected with the ego'?superego gap and it is used by the patient as a process model. The remainder of the session shows the transition from an excitational transference to a transference of psychic processes, then an objectal transference of representations, bringing out three successive modes of transference.