ABSTRACT
Less than a decade later, in the early thirties, the rise of ego psychology initiated a rich fermentation of new ideas which terminated in a number of disputes and splits within the psychoanalytic movement from which it is still reverberating. Although psychoanalysts as a group are undoubtedly less conventional in their value-systems than society at large, there can be little doubt that our psychoanalytic concepts of mature love, emotional maturity, masculinity, femininity, “healthy” aggression, etc., are not universals, but generally reflect certain of the outstanding values of contemporary Western culture. An important contributory factor which heightens the patient’s responsiveness to the analyst’s implicit attitudes is the tendency towards the development of a positive transference reaction.
