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April 16, 1968. DIFFICULTIES IN THE PATH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. (Eighteenth Sigmund Freud Anniversary Lecture.) Anna Freud.
Miss Freud addresses herself to the seemingly negative topic in the established psychoanalytic tradition which finds it more profitable to approach the obstacles than those parts of the work which come easily. She is aware that the world has frequently blamed analysts for this approach, seeing it as inherently pessimistic and negative. Her topic is in the tradition of three of Freud's papers: A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis (1917), The Resistances to Psychoanalysis (1925), and Analysis, Terminable and Interminable (1937). To the two areas approached by her father, i.e., difficulties within the patient and difficulties in