ABSTRACT
In psycho-analysis proper, mixing up with the patient's life, is strictly incompatible and contraindicated. The more the Analyst and the patient will be enabled to see the psychoanalytic procedure as a highly specialised section of a greater whole, the less will accuracy in the conditions of its execution correspond to real rigidity in either of them. The deeper reasons for the comparative seclusion of the analytic situation from the contemporary life situation cannot occupy us here. In a nutshell they are to be found in the intertwined, essential, needs of the psychoanalytic process; to allow for regression and the analysis of the transference situation. Wherever these two are necessary to take place, the analytic situation is the method of choice, and the full course of Psycho-analysis is indicated. Without having experienced it both from the point of view of the analysand and the analyst-having been analysed and practising psycho-analysis-nobody can fully understand either the practice or the theory of psycho-analysis.
