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I would like now to state that the further pursuit of the concept of the analyzing instrument and its implications leads to the consideration of some fundamental areas of psychoanalytic theory. For the purpose of introducing a new set of coordinates for the discussion, may I refer you to two papers by Bertram Lewin: “Sleep, Narcissistic Neurosis, and the Analytic Situation”1 and “Dream Psychology and the Analytic Situation.”2 I will here read to you some passages from these papers which I regard as essential to the continuation of my discussion:
All in all, the essay on Mourning and Melancholia, devoted to instinct and ego psychology, diverges from the line taken in the series of metaphysical papers that Freud had just published and from the Metapsy-chological Supplement, which was still to appear, for in Mourning and Melancholia Freud dropped the explicit comparison of dream and neurosis. Subsequent studies were to continue the new direction, so that
Page 204dream psychology and clinical psychopathology developed as two separate interests with two separate literatures. The two fields that Freud was eager to unite in the Metapsychological Supplement were divorced. Dream interpretation became subordinated to technique—“gehandhabt”. Freud's statement in The New Introductory Lectures , that analysts in the main were neglecting the dream, is true enough so far as it refers to this particular point—the bringing together of neurosis and dream. Analysts had followed the direction that Freud took in Mourning and Melancholia, and later in The Problem of Anxiety , rather than the direction of the Metapsychological Supplement … [p. 489].1
This exposition does not seek to elevate dream psychology into a sole mode of formulating the narcissistic neuroses. I wished to demonstrate again the essential