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DEAR SIR,
In my paper presented to the panel at the International Congress in New York last year entitled 'The handling of resistances in adult patients', I referred to Freud's original notes about the 'rat man clinical histories'. I used a well-known Freudian clinical story to illustrate my point of view.
In this work I used and referred to the usual Strachey English translation of Freud's works, so that we all had a common understanding. I have tried to show how sometimes it is the therapist who creates this type of situation or resistance. I say that an analyst who is very anxious and intrusive distorts the communication and provokes a special reply. For instance in the original record of 'A case of obsessional neurosis' S.E. 10, p. 281, we can see the Freud countertransference: '… It was still hard enough. After a struggle and assertion by him that my undertaking to show that all the material concerned only himself looked like anxiety on my part, he surrendered the first of his ideas'.
Here is the extract from my paper where I clearly state that 'I would like to show here how the patient distorts the reception of the analytic nourishment and turns it into an anal penetration. Sometimes it is the therapist himself who promotes, creates, determines, through his