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This contribution analyses R.?Stoller's magisterial?1979 book, Sexual Excitement, one of the richest, most evocatively written, most complex, and yet most revealing cases in the psychoanalytic clinical literature. Stoller is better known in France as a theorist of gender, but he desserves recognition for the analytic investigation of erotics. This study argues that Stoller's subjective involvement in the analysis and writing of the case history is itself a transitional moment in the history of psychoanalysis, a bridge between classical resistance analysis and contemporary hermeneutic and relational approaches. The paper examines his understanding and disavowal of erotic contertransference. Stoller's reflections on the ethics, scientific rigor, and conceptual ambiguities of a case history still serve as exemplary and subversive in the analytic field today.