Construction à la recherche d'une indispensable sépulture

The work of construction is often necessary in order to ensure continuity in the analytic process in the case of patients presenting a weakness in their ability to symbolise. The author questions the validity of these constructions and the possible role of suggestion that they entail. A clinical vignette illustrates the silent work of the analyst who essentially depends on his own counter transference and latent representations in order to build a construction that can enable a patient to extract himself from fatal course of repetition and re-gain contact with the mysterious and traumatic material of his childhood