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This article introduces ethno-psychoanalytically informed supervision of fieldwork as a methodological instrument of reflexive ethnography to the methodological debate of the discipline, and aims to strengthen this approach in research and teaching. The authors identify a contradiction between recurrent calls for reflexive research practices and the simultaneous fending off of (self-) reflexive modes of interpretation, which are frequently dismissed as overly psychologising or ‘narcissistic’. Using a case study, they show how in research supervision the process of associative interpretation within a group mirrors the irritation of the researcher and the emotional dynamics of the field situation. Taboos, power relations, structures of meaning and agency within the field are made visible as scenic arrangements and opened up to reflexive interpretation and objectivation. Supervision helps to resolve research blockages and to …