ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the progression of A. Freud’s work compelled him to recognize the existence of modes of thought even more extraordinary then he could have expected when he proposed his first hypothesis on the unconscious. The analysand’s use of free associations implies that he has accepted the surrender of all claims to the rational connection of thoughts, so that another type of connection can be established by means of the analyst’s freely floating attention. In spite of the censorship, the repressed wishes succeed in finding satisfaction through a special mode of thought to ensure the victory of the pleasure principle. While the two types of thoughts appear to the naked eye to coexist in splitting, the ego appears to misjudge totally its dual way of functioning. There is no communication between the split parts, no tertiary process.
