ABSTRACT
The domain of psychoanalysis is built upon three poles: an activity, an object and a subject. Knowledge of these three poles is essential to an understanding of psychoanalysis. A patient comes for psychoanalysis because he suspects he is responsible in part for the problems which are hampering his life. Psychoanalysis is the elucidation of those activities of which the patient (and probably the analyst) is unaware. The feelings experienced by the analyst but aroused by the patient constitute the counter-transference. Feelings, being the register of emotional action, are studied by the analyst in order to gain information about the emotional action-pattern in the patient. With fine tuning he will be able to differentiate between negative emotional action and positive constructive emotion. He will be able to infer the intrapsychic activity by what is being done to himself.
