The process of psychoanalytic therapy is essentially one in which patient and therapist collaborate to achieve useful insight into the specific nature and structure of the patient's personality and into the manner in which this relates to his difficulties in living. Psychoanalytic technique, then, consists of the specific procedures whereby the therapist tries to bring about this insight-producing collaboration.1

Zilboorg2 distinguishes between a psychiatric and a psychoanalytic definition of this factor. 'To the psychiatrist', he states, 'emotional insight … means to feel "appropriately" what one thinks and does. To the psychoanalyst, however, it means primarily being freed of that surplus of unconscious affects which either inhibits or intensifies one's conscious "intellectual" processes and attitudes toward life… [It] means (or ought to mean) the subtraction, the elimination of the affect which (unconsciously)