The analyst's mistakes may function as a web through which the negativity of the trauma will be woven. The analyzed individual expects to rediscover the trauma in the present, since at that time, when it occurred, they were not there.

The sadism of the analyst meets the masochism of the analyzed and vice versa. When and how does masochism become the guardian of life, and when does it give way to the death drive, resulting in success leading to the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and "striking" both the analyst and the analyzed?

Who ultimately analyzes whom?