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No transference is 'ideal' in the sense that it is uninfluenced by the personality of the analyst and by events during analysis. The analyst may try to be
nothing but a mirror; he can never escape the fact that his own emotions determine entirely details of the way in which he proceeds. Nevertheless, the authors say, the various attitudes of various analysts have, if serious mistakes are avoided, equally good results. It should not be demanded that the analyst be free of emotions, but that he have the self-knowledge and self-control which is necessary to avoid 'serious mistakes'.
The reviewer would like to add one critical remark to his review of this excellent paper. The authors include the timing of interpretations, and, also in part, the content of interpretations among those attitudes which are dependent on the personality of the analyst, and which, they believe, cannot be determined by guiding principles. Certainly we agree that in these fields too there remain certain personal imponderabilia; but there is an objective doctrine of the dynamics and economics of interpretation applicable to all analyses.