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Freud pointed out that psychoanalysis is 'a sort of after-education' able to 'correct blunders for which the parental education
was to blame'. It is intelligible as 'deconditioning' and 'reconditioning' to reopen the emotional development. To master the analytic technique and achieve therapeutic results which are rational and scientifically based, the analyst must be able first to penetrate diagnostically to the major traumatic influences and the effects of these so that he may know from the outset what is wrong and what he purposes to correct. Psychoanalysis is analogous to major surgery.