ABSTRACT
The Reality Principle involves a detour on the way to pleasure, but its purpose is still to obtain a maximal amount of pleasure. Freud stressed that the positive memories laid down must be differentiated from the organ that perceives and registers the experiences. Freud employed two analogies for the relationship between the Preconscious and Consciousness: Non-topographic analogy and Topographic analogy. Perception-consciousness is driven to scan the world because hallucinatory wish-fulfillment fails. The moment those memories fail to satisfy, the internal sensory impressions of mother-breast-satisfaction are separated from realistic impressions of satisfaction and become the first memory. Normally in analysis, a realistic bond is formed initially between the analyst as a reality figure and the realistic ego of the patient. On the basis and background of that realistic bond, a gradual regression, against resistances, then occurs, which results in the development of the transference. A memory becomes a memory by virtue of an experience losing some of its sensory quality.
