Chapter V 165

ORGANIC ANALYSIS OF REPRESSION AND OF THE FACTOR OF RESISTANCE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL VIEWPOINT

Transference is an unconscious condition which involves as much the analyst as the analysand--Resistance and repression are the factors in this mutual situation--Under present personalistic procedure in psychoanalysis the analyst deals objectively with an inherently subjective situation--He regards only the disparity of the patient and so preserves the apparent differentiation which is the underlying cause of the patient’s disorder--There is a confusion in psychoanalysis due to the failure to discriminate between the mother-image and the mother-organism--The analyst, being socially dissociated, seeks to reinstate the comfort of his own childhood through an unconscious self-interested response (pleasure or displeasure) to the analysand--The transference which is thus introduced by the unconscious attitude of the analyst cannot be analyzed because of the analyst’s own involvement--This is the impasse of the individualistic analysis--From a societal viewpoint the analyst can be interested only in the patient’s delusion of separateness and will direct his endeavour to an understanding of the social repression which dissociates them both from the common, generic consciousness.