ABSTRACT
Controversy is the growing-point from which development springs, but it must be a genuine confrontation and not an impotent beating of the air by opponents whose differences of view never meet. In his introductory note to Freud's first six works on psychoanalytical technique, James Strachey (1958) points out the relative scarcity of texts on this theme by the creator of psychoanalysis. The facts concerning the intimate connexion of "remembering" and "forgetting" with the processes that rule repression, however, seem to contradict Kris's statement. This "falsifying," "screening" character of the memory process is taken to its logical conclusion by Bion in his concept of "saturation" of the mind by memory and desire. This concept, as will be seen, underlies one of the most fertile trends of psychoanalytical technique in our day. Since Bion's (1957) work on "Arrogance," this attitude—or the feeling of omnipotence related to it-has been interpreted as a basic incapacity to tolerate frustration.
