[Undated - 1969]

The positive and negative therapeutic reactions are in essence the same; they are therapeutic reactions intended to take attention away from psychoanalysis. Like the insistence on ‘cure’ as an objective for taking up analysis, they are objectives for continuing or stopping; they are ‘covers’, rationalizations, ‘reasons’ operating in a role as slave to . .. what? The passions? Or some unknown such as hatred of doubt?