ABSTRACT
In the reference to destruction of an important link is based on a number of observations, the cumulative effect of which led to the formulations in the paper, 'Attacks on Linking'. Analysands stimulate both elements in analyst as a method of destroying his link with the analysand. It is as if the patient were himself a psychoanalyst who discovered these elements and set about deliberately to stimulate them to destroy the link between the analyst and himself. This chapter regards the idea of causation, implicit throughout the paper, as erroneous; it will limit the perspicacity of the analyst if he allows this element in 'Attacks on Linking' to obtrude. The 'causal link' has apparent validity only with events associated closely in space and time. It attempts to make that so by proposing that so-called clinical reports were regarded as C3-verbal transformations of sensory impressions. The proper state for intuiting psychoanalytic realizations can be compared with the states supposed to provide conditions for hallucinations.
