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The analyst assumes the superordinate function of 'the keeper of the analytic process' in the face of the resistance against it (in himself and his patient). To do so he suspends his personal conscience (biases), paradoxical though it may be. Avoiding the over-estimations and over-expectations for the personal analysis, it is nevertheless expected that it will provide a relative resolution of conflict to permit certain ego functions sufficient freedom (secondary autonomy) for the development of the analysing instrument which includes listening, observing, integrating and translating functions and allowing a mobile translation of secondary into primary processes and then back again to secondary process thought and language. It is in the evenly hovering attention (an altered state of consciousness) which the analyst consciously permits himself that his resistances are temporarily suspended, old connexions held in abeyance to potentiate the possibility for new ones to occur. It is a state of readiness to sleep and dream though precluding inattention, sleeping, and dreaming while permitting limited fantasy formation.