ABSTRACT
The analyst has to mirror the interdependence of his developmental objectives, his therapeutic goals, and the sociocultural background. The essence of psychotherapeutic action is to show the structure of a personal, not role-shaped, interaction in a frame characterised by the opposite feature of a non-personal, specific role relation. The therapeutic relationship must always contain and actualise the two moments of personal and functional-specific mode with the possibility of realising one mode in favour of the other, but without suspending the dual structure. Under the conditions of the psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic treatment, the patient regresses when he shapes the transference situation according to his unconscious fantasies of relationships. The concept of regression and its application in the psychoanalytic therapeutic situation served as a venue for basic controversies between drive and structure theoretical psychoanalysts on the one hand, and self- and object-relation theoretical psychoanalysts on the other.
