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The definition of discomfort as it applies to the patient's feeling state and the resistance this produces does not appear to have been addressed directly either by Freud or by contemporary psychoanalysis. The state of discomfort can be interpreted as an involuntary form of communication that requires some verbal communication on the part of the analyst.