ABSTRACT
Analytic experience shows that something must exist which makes it possible to an extensive degree to free highly neurotic human beings from the excessive dominance of their Unconscious and put them in a position to live as those do who are not neurotic. Psychoanalysis has compelled people step by step to lay aside our intellectual pride and to learn to attach less and less value to the power of our consciousness as against the biological and elementary force of the Unconscious. Analysis had to ascribe therapeutic value to the affective acceptance which was finally equivalent to abreacting the affects, and was possible only after the removal of unconscious resistances. Analysis is now in the position to free itself to an extensive degree from the work of investigation, since we know from the outset not only the whole content of the Unconscious and the psychical mechanisms, but also what for the time being is the final element, the primal trauma.
