(Transitory Conversion, Substitution, Illusion, Hallucination, “Character-Regression,” and “Expression-Displacement.”)

IT is in the transference that the physician, as well as the patient, receives the really convincing impressions as to the correctness of the analytical explanation of symptoms. So long as the psychical material afforded through free association is the only proof that the patient has of the correctness of the analytical explanations, they may seem to him remarkable, surprising, even illuminating; he still does not attain a conviction of their indubitable correctness, the feeling that they are the only explanations possible, however honestly he may try to become convinced, or even if he forces conviction on himself with all his strength. It definitely looks as if one could never reach any real convictions at all