ABSTRACT
Transference, repetition, regressive modes of thinking are set in motion. The scene includes an analysand who is suffering and making a demand, a psychoanalyst who is offering help, is receptive and unhurried, sessions at an intensive frequency and at regular times in the same place, and with the analysand in the reclining position. The psychoanalytic interpretation is made within this context, 'a context whose co-ordinates are fixed by the patient's demand, the analyst's expectations and the contract defining the analytic situation'. The reclining position and the necessary 'passivation' arouses fears connected with femininity, castration, homosexuality, seduction and loss of control. Derivatives of psychoanalysis use a lesser frequency of sessions. The goals are usually more specific and circumscribed. The analytic attitude, the basic attitude and position of the psychoanalyst, is part of the setting. The psychoanalytic journey takes across the lands of one's memory, emotions and relationships to others.
