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 CHAPTER IX

ON SOME CRUCIAL POINTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

I

''From Dr. Loÿ. 12th January, 1913.

you said at our last conversation was extraordinarily stimulating. I was expecting you to throw light upon the interpretation of my own and my patients’ dreams from the standpoint of Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams.” Instead, you put before me an entirely new conception: the dream as a means of re-establishing the moral equipoise, fashioned in the realm below the threshold of consciousness. That indeed is a fruitful conception. But still more fruitful appears to me your other suggestion. You regard the problems of psychoanalysis as much deeper than I had ever thought: it is no longer merely a question of getting rid of troublesome pathological symptoms; the analysed person gets to understand not his anxiety-experiences alone, but his whole self most completely, and by means of this understanding he can build up and fashion his whole life anew. But he himself must be the builder, the Analyst only furnishes him with the necessary tools.

To begin with, I would ask you to consider what justification there is for the original procedure of Breuer and Freud, now entirely given up both by Freud himself and by you, but practised by Frank, for instance, as his only method: I mean “the abreaction of the inhibited effects