ABSTRACT
Thus author interested in 'variations' rather than 'modifications', and it is of course evident that the outcome of an analysis may depend upon just such small variations. However, the 'modifications' with which he contrasts the 'variations' are also important in view of the fact that many of the cases with which we have to deal are borderline cases. Thus a variation in technique at any of the various phases of an analysis is directed towards different ends. The concept of distance in the analytic relationship can here serve as a sure guide and, in author's opinion, enables us to place more effectively any variation in technique, whatever the reasons which underlie the form it may take. In the last stages of an analysis, variations are not used to re-establish a distance, but to bring to an end an object relationship which has now become obsolete.
