The author tries to illustrate in this paper some of the characteristic diffuculties of establishing the setting of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in early psychosis. The apparent absence of a direct request for therapy by the patient himself is treated by the introduction of the notion of "impersonnal appeal". The material of a clinical case is used to show this aspect and the difference of interpretations used with psychotic patients as in contrast with neurotics. A comment of the technique originating from Freud's second drive theory is added in conclusion.