[Undated]

Now psychoanalysis attempts to elucidate the barriers and links that hinder or promote the relationships that require a capacity for communication. Nevertheless, the success of psychoanalysis lies so far not so much in bringing communication nearer, as in showing unmistakably the feebleness of our methods of communication even in the communication of disagreement. Suppose the god of the Christian religion came to be explicable – in all the manifestations attributed to him – as some perfectly satisfactorily demonstrable phenomenon of physical science, without the need of any mystical suppositions. Even a verbal statement that bears the stamp of rational persuasiveness will be found to be the vehicle for projective identification and to obtain any force and significance it has from its being so employed, and none – save deceptiveness – from its rational form and characteristics.