ABSTRACT
The purest Hartmannian psychology shines ego psychology, together with Kris's own contributions on preconscious thought based on his studies of caricature and the comical, which culminate in 1950 with his work "On Preconscious Mental Process". Kris's reasoning originates in what he calls "the good analytic hour". Kris's three types of false insight are valid and must be taken account of in clinical practice; one should distinguish in each case what is authentic from what is spurious. In the most authentic of insights there will always be a desire to please the analyst, and, in the same way, even in the most envious of impulses to self-analysis there will always exist a nuance of legitimate independence. In their attempt at synthesis, Grinberg and his colleagues combine Winnicotfs and Kris's ideas on regression in the service of the ego. A brief clinical history also illustrates that the difference between intellectual and emotional insight is based on an error of perspective in time.
