ABSTRACT
Many patients have a sensation of giddiness on rising from the recumbent position at the end of the psycho-analytic session. The explanation—in itself rational—that this is the result of the sudden change of posture proves on analysis to be a successful rationalization; in reality the sensation on change of posture is only the means of expression of certain feelings and thoughts still under censorship. The end of the psycho-analytic session brings with it necessarily another kind of psychic ‘swaying’. The complete freedom of association enjoyed during the session must suddenly be dammed up before leaving, and all the logical, ethical, and aesthetical barriers demanded by social life be re-erected. With a feeling of giddiness after the end of the analytic session, probably the feeling of the psychic change-over can only transform itself into the sensation of giddiness because both processes deal with an analogous disturbance of equilibrium.
