ABSTRACT
The obstacle involves the analysand’s transference and the analyst’s countertransference and poses rather confusing problems. The arrest of the process introduces us fully to the nature of its movement, its inherent temporality. Nothing that can happen in an analytic treatment may be considered independent of the analytic situation, which functions as a relatively permanent background in relation to changing forms. The structure instituted by the pact is intended to permit certain work tending towards a process: experience proves that, beyond the resistances, whose conquest the constitution of analytic work precisely is, situations of obstruction in the process inevitably arise: the idea of field seems appropriate to these circumstances. In the analytic process there is no formalized, computable operation but a situation in which the analyst is committed, flesh, bone, and unconscious. The mainspring of the analytic process appears to be the production of resistances and bastions and their respective interpretive dissolution, the generator of “insight”.
