ABSTRACT
Conflict lies at the centre of all dynamic concepts about the psychology of man and, in consequence, lies at the centre of the theories of all schools of analytical psychology. By agreeing with the idea that conflict is the basis for all psychic development, the analyst ranks himself with dialecticians for whom contradiction constitutes fertile clashes, which lead to higher stages of development, to realizations, and to a superior reality. The development and emergence of the theory of internal object relationships has given us a vision of a psychic world furnished with objects and people who are either of personal historical origin. Thus, while a main is alive, vibrant, curious, and flexible and while he stays on the course of psychic and personal evolution, man must be available to the experience of both the unity and diversity of the world that exists around him, to his own psychic functioning, and to the state of his own soul.
