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With the aid of clinical vignettes the author invites readers to think about what the mutual gaze in face-to-face psychoanalytic therapy sometimes induces in the way of difficulties in the analysand, and sometimes in the analyst too. Should the indications be nuanced nonetheless? In any case, in keeping with tuning that is “tailor-made” to suit the needs for treatment prior to analytic work in certain patients, it is an issue that needs to be examined while avoiding any form of idealisation.