Renunciation and reversal, both of which are crucial moments in the countertransference, punctuate the analytic process and seek to articulate patience and impatience, or patient impatience as a precondition of the subjective appropriation of absence. In this process, interpretation and associative speech play a crucial role by seeking, via the different forms of autoerotism, an equilibrium between the narcissistic pole and the object pole of psychic functioning. But even when this equilibrium is found, it is always in a state of disequilibrium.