Love in psychoanalysis - a case for the public prosecutor?

This essay protests in the course of the discussions about 174c StGB that i n the meantime came to effect, against a general penalization of sexual con tacts in the context of psychotherapy. On the basis of the "chronique scand aleuse" of Krutzenbichler and Essers it is showed, that since the beginning s of psychoanalysis up till today there occurred repeatedly such "incidents in analysis". A case study helps to show, that the harm of intimate contac ts has to be considered with great differentiation. The article's conclusio n is a "psychoanalysis of the analytical situation": instead of calling for the legislative psychoanalysts should recognize and analyse the problem as an inherent one rooted in the construction of the psychoanalytic situation itself.