ABSTRACT
Interpretation seeks to make conscious the unconscious. But in accepting this formula we face the problem of seeing in what sense we use the word "unconscious". It has diverse meanings, which find echoes in metapsychology, and metapsychological points of view broaden it. In the second half of the 1920s Wilhelm Reich, in his Seminar on Psychoanalytic Technique in Vienna, began a revision that was soon to result in significant changes. Reich begins by remembering the difficulties encountered at the beginning of an analysis and indicates that often the negative transference hidden behind conventional positive attitudes is ignored. The principal thesis of Reichian interpretative technique is based on two theoretical supports—libidinous stasis and the theory of character. Reich's works eventually demonstrated the value in Adler's ideas in The Neurotic Constitution (1912) as well as their limitations, in that Adler sets the theory of the libido against the theory of character.
