The developmental aims of analysis include an increased tolerance of the id by the ego, and this is itself related to the patient's friendly feelings to his internalized analyst after the analysis is over. What attitudes to interpretation facilitate this development and what attitudes interfere with it?

Analysis has both traumatic and therapeutic elements. The flight from reality manifested in the phenomenon of transference indicates the traumatic element. It is due to the disruption of the stimulus barrier against the unconscious. The development of transference distances the patient from an analyst who is felt to be magically potent. The essential craft of the psychoanalyst lies in formulating interpretations which undo this distance.