ABSTRACT
From the outset, one question which has always loomed over psychoanalysis is the question of its becoming an interminable process. This is not a problem unique to analytical therapy, but a problem that exists in life generally, one that becomes more clearly visible when viewed through the analytical microscope, so to speak. The basic problem concerns any organic or developmental process that should be naturally evolving, but which becomes chronic or static. Small children who have a good, secure, emotional attachment to their parents tend to be more demanding because they are quite uninhibited about saying what they want and are keenly aware when the parent on whom they are dependent is away for too long. It is increasingly common for children to be unnaturally good and make no protest about separations as a result of being quietly brutalised by complete disregard for their early attachment feelings.
