The testimony of a psychotherapist’s experiences at the onset of the pandemic aptly describes the general anguish provoked by the appearance of the SARS-COV-2 virus, which has necessitated an immediate adjustment in psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic treatments. The profound existential uncertainty resulting from the continuing pandemic has permanently modified the therapeutic technique with reference to the convergence of the socio-cultural and the intra-psychic. The associated theoretical debates illustrate an opening towards increased flexibility where the uniqueness of the encounter between analyst and patient becomes even more central.