ABSTRACT
It little serves to elucidate and discuss concepts where there intervene desires and fears that direct matters towards ends of their own. This fact, discovered with its full implications by psycho-analysis, also holds good for analytical concepts, their interpretation and use, and for those persons who interpret and use them. A marked tendency prevails to regard independence as something frankly positive and dependence as something frankly negative, from the point of view of psychological cure or evolution. An analyst who fears dependence— i.e. one who lives in anxious dependence upon his internal objects—may be tempted to drive the analysand to an ‘independent’ way of acting and have difficulty in bringing him to elaborate and overcome the neurotic dependence he displays towards him. It is the idea that psycho-analysis advocate’s virtually unlimited instinctual satisfaction or, at least, that it advises one to give it preference over affective and moral values.
