Sigmund Freud by Janet Sayers;

Author:Janet Sayers;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Herein, argued Freud, resides material on which the psychoanalyst can base an interpretation or explanation to the patient of the unconscious cause of their problems. Interpretations should not, he warned, take the form of ‘lightning diagnoses’. The interpretation should be well timed and only delivered when the patient is ‘already so close to it that he has only one short step more to make in order to get hold of the explanation for himself’ (Freud, 1913a, p. 140).

In addition to providing examples of psychoanalytic interpretations in his published case studies (see e.g. pp. 66, 74 above), Freud provided the following hypothetical example in which the psychoanalyst tells the patient,

Up to your nth year you regarded yourself as the sole and unlimited possessor of your mother; then came another baby and brought you grave disillusionment. Your mother left you for some time, and even after her reappearance she was never again devoted to you exclusively. Your feelings towards your mother became ambivalent, your father gained a new importance for you (Freud, 1937b, p. 261)

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