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To summarize, we may ask when preparation for analysis is completed. So far as the analyst is concerned, it is completed when he has a bird's eye view of the dynamics and is able to gauge the transference potentials of the new patient; and, furthermore, when the analyst (a) is certain that the patient will not stop treatment at any time convenient to him, and (b) is relaxed enough to need no longer to make plans or to speculate about devices for making the patient analysable and keeping him in analysis. The patient is prepared for analysis when he has overcome his panic or acute
distress, but still suffers enough to be motivated to accept the frustrations inherent in the analytic procedure. One must be able to detect in his free associations a trend to alienate himself from the pathological part of his ego. The patient must be in the process of projecting his own omnipotence onto the analyst, and at the same time trying to become worthy of this new omnipotent parent. Then, by re-introjection, after passage through the analyst, a healthy remodification of the patient's ego will take place.