The psychoanalytic process and Freud’s concepts of transference and transference neurosis.

Abstract

The author investigates the concept of psychoanalytic process as it relates to the capability for defining the specificity of psychoanalytic treatments. The concept is traced back to its origin in Freud's understanding of transference and transference neurosis. The author suggests that this process should be understood as an issue in which via "just-like-interpretations" contents of the patient's transference enter into consciousness in the guise of a transference neurosis. These newly built substitutive formations are then removed by "just-like-it-wasinterpretations" and changed into other substitutive formations. As this process can only be instigated by psychoanalytic measures, it is, therefore, the process itself that defines the specific difference of psychoanalytic treatments.

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