"This book brilliantly illustrates what clinical case work can achieve. Alarmed by B.'s compulsive crying and feminine behaviors, after just under five years, her parents seek an analyst so that, " if there is still time", reverse what seemed to be leading to a feared homosexuality. Naturally, the author's therapeutic project is quite diverse:
Over the course of two years and 300 sessions, she tries to "listen to the phantasmatic singularity" of the boy."
Among the psychoanalytic writings, the clinical case is what most demands from the author: to discern what to extract, from a long work, the relevant material, having a wide knowledge of the theory that bases his interventions and courage to talk about countertransference and the possible interpretative errors to which it arrived.

The book that the reader now holds in their hands brilliantly illustrates what can be achieved in this genre. Alarmed by B.'s compulsive crying and feminine behaviors, after a little less than five years, her parents seek an analyst so that, "if there is still time", they reverse what seemed to be leading to a feared homosexuality. Naturally, the author's therapeutic project is quite diverse: over the course of two years and 300 sessions, she tries to
"listening to the phantasmatic singularity" of the child he attended, taking into account what is already seen in the initial interviews: he is entangled in a double bind made up of the combination of the mother's immovable desire to have a daughter and not a son, the father's passivity towards his
his wife and the conscious intention of both for the child to abandon his "abnormal" tendencies. Illustrated with twenty drawings, the story highlights B.'s despair at her mother's inability both to curb her desires and to contain and process his.

The anguish of her disintegration leads him to submit to her prescribed script, enacted invasively in countless real-life circumstances (including imposing an abrupt end to analysis). It is in the face of this anguish that the fascination for feminine accessories,
bordering on cross-dressing, reveals her meaning: a defense he clings to to create a “psychic skin”, manifesting in her concrete body how he needs to separate from his mother and simultaneously identify with her. He bonds with the spider-vampire mother who is his only refuge.
to avoid collapsing into formlessness.

In these times in which many consider the Freudian discipline surpassed by the "advances of science", a book like this makes us see that, as Freud says in The Future of an Illusion, the voice of reason can be soft, but he has a good chance of making himself heard.