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This article is an elaboration après-coup of a clinical encounter with a young child that did not lead to the setting-up a treatment situation. This “failure” intensified the traumatic potential of the clinical encounter and led the analyst, as she was beginning to write up the case, not only to propose a “strange title” but also to produce a countertransference dream the following night which helped to get her undermined associative processes going again. This was evidence of the work of the analyst’s unconscious ego in the dream thus produced, and of the lifting of the initial negation linked to a traumatic incidental thought so that the sources of the child’s malaise could come to light.