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Novmber 1, 1965. THE PARADOXICAL EFFECT OF EFFORT. Justin Simon, M.D.
In 1939 Hartmann wrote: 'What we do not yet have is a systematic psychoanalytic knowledge of this [conflict-free] sphere [of the ego]… We do not need to prove that investigations which are limited to this sphere … inevitably overlook basic psychological relationships.' But because psychoanalytic treatment attempts to reduce behavior to elementary conflicts, analysts may overlook contributions to behavior which issue from the conflict-free sphere.