ABSTRACT
Freud's basic princip les of therapeutic technique, which were evolved from clinical experimentation, have remained the fundamenta l guide in present day analytic therapy. But his theoretical formulati.:ms and those of his early coworkers concerning technique and therapy were gradually subjected to reexamination as time went on, by Freud himself, as we ll as others. Attempts at re-examination began on a large scale in lS24 with Ferenczi's Entwicklungsziele deT Psychoanalyse. In 1936 at the Marianbad International Congress there was a symposium which dealt with the interrelationship between theory and therapy. The contributions of the symposium are well known, as are the participants; however, contrary to expectations, this wide-scale discussion brought little clarification to the problem. It did make plain, however, that there were many questions in the minds of the analysts, and differing views on the relationship between theory and technique. One important contribution of the symposium was to bring to the foreground of attention the necessity for discussing these problems. From that date, we more frequently find in analytic literature attempts at fresh orientation, and trials at finding and formulating new correlations between technique and theory. It became apparent in these
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publications that although there was agreement on many basic principles, there was sharp disagreement about various others.
