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Yet, we cannot deny it. There seems to be some kind of general over-all benefit to psychoanalysis. Probably, it is so difficult to determine, more people are benefited than are hurt. If this be true, I have an idea why. In the very absence of meeting, in the essential square peg to round hole, the misapplied and erroneous {{LJ:S}}-concept of the analyst attached to the {{LJ:er}}-released matter there is a liberty for the patient to come to his or her own conclusions. I suspect that when the patient makes a poor transference, there are often surprisingly good results. This, at least, for Freudian analysts. What happens is that a self-analysis with an essentially unimportant but nonetheless not-to-be-ignored chaperone has taken place. The analyst says, “Dependency drives, castration fantasies”—the patient feels: and feels beneath words: “I know what love is, I know what power is, I know (and this is private {{LJ:H}} knowledge) that I am not as bad as I thought I was, but this I’m keeping to myself. If I give it to old Four-Eyes he’ll tack it on his article board, put it under glass, and give it a name.”

So, beneath the surface, a mighty ventilation takes place. On the surface there is guilt, hostility, pain, self-hatred—in the deep reaches of the er, there is shame, opening of rhythm, pleasure, self-love, and the suppressed H understanding and S admitting that one is not so bad after all. What characterizes the successful analysis is that the S has been dealt a blow, not the er. It isn’t that one learns to control one’s outrageous id, as Freudians would have it, but rather that the {{LJ:sup}} loses power, must take retreats, must admit some of its imposture. On the surface the analyst believes he has tamed the patient; what has happened is that the patient has out-foxed him. There was more than one girl I laid who said to me, “I’m not going to tell my analyst I’ve been sleeping with you until you leave town, because if I do, he’s going to fuck it up.”

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