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… when conscious purposive ideas are abandoned, concealed purposive ideas assume control of the current of ideas, and … superficial associations are only substitutes by displacement for suppressed deeper ones (Freud, 1900, p. 531.).
WITH THIS STATEMENT IN the Interpretation of Dreams, Freud laid down the two theorems which he called the "basic pillars" of psychoanalysis. (Edelson, 1984)
Langs is building upon these basic pillars and yet is establishing a modification of psychoanalytic thought at these very roots. His communicative interactional orientation and its associated model of the mind provide an instrument that discovers an array of unconscious processes at work which heretofore simply have not been visible and understood within the analytic interaction. I wish to illuminate this with the following clinical example.
This particular hour is preceded by the therapist, a 34 year old woman, being late for her patient, a 28 year old woman. The therapist comes out of her office accompanied by her prior male patient. She has obviously gone overtime and extended this visit into the next patient's time. The office door opens directly onto the