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This compendium of essays written by Pentti Ikonen, one of Finland's psychoanalytic pioneers, deals comprehensively with the problems of psychoanalytic practice and theory. The most crucial issues taken up are the basic tools of the psychoanalytic method; the manifestations of the oedipal complex; phallic defences against the feelings of oedipal insufficiency; the metapsychological concepts of psychic binding and instinctual dualism, and idealisations behind ideologies.
Ikonen's conception of the psychoanalytic method takes as its starting-point Freud's observation that an analysand will grasp where his symptoms derive from if allowed to study his mind in peace. That is, the primary