ABSTRACT
‘Making conscious the unconscious’, or ‘overcoming the resistances’ has been and continues to be the way and the aim of all psycho-analytic technique. The object or aim of psycho-analytic treatment has also experienced diverse formulations. The concept of ‘regaining health’ shared and continues to share its place with other concepts. Technical procedure depends on the scope of general and specifically technical psychological knowledge. This scope varies according to periods in psycho-analysis as a whole and to those in each individual analyst. ‘The more closely events in the treatment coincide with this ideal description’, states Freud after the above-mentioned words, ‘the greater will be the success of the psycho-analytic therapy.’ psycho-analysis has defended itself well against these dangers, and can, in its totality, point at an important and highly positivc evolution. Psycho- analytic knowledge has progressed, and in some instances in which the classical analyst probably demanded or prohibited, the experienced analyst may achieve the same thing, or more, by interpretation.
