Obstacles To Psychoanalytic Progress

This 76-page paperback from Gece Kitapligi presents an English-language passage by Sigmund Freud. It looks at how hostility and partisanship within the psychoanalytic community can create conditions that work against objective inquiry. The passage suggests that some analysts learn to deflect the demands of their own analysis by directing them outward toward others, so that they themselves change little and escape the corrective effect of the process. The author closes by reflecting that power is seldom held without being misused, an observation he presents as a broader warning.