Meetings of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York

DISCUSSION: Dr. Frank Berchenko demurred from this last suggestion, stating that prototypical neurotic conflicts are evident in both transference and infantile neurosis when successful resolution of preoedipal developmental tasks has occurred. When this is not so, various preoedipally based distortions of the transference neurosis militate against successful analytic work. Dr. Martin Blum drew attention to patients with flawed transference neuroses whose separation-anxiety and self-esteem pathologies require that the analyst pay particular attention to nonverbal behavior. Narcissism may lead to transference phenomena best understood as manifestations of a self-self relationship, with portions projected outward, rather than as derivatives of former object relationships. He also raised the question as to whether an analysis could be considered complete without the emergence of a classic phallic-oedipal transference associated with recall of repressed childhood material. Dr. George Wiedeman questioned the validity of extending the concept of the infantile neurosis to the prephallic period, noting the frequent clinical finding of the emergence of prephallic material as a resistance against the full appreciation of oedipal material. Dr. Samuel Abrams suggested that the oedipal phase also saw the development of a new way of integrating inner and outer reality, something which had to occur in an analysis if neurotic conflicts were to be considered resolved. Dr. Nathaniel Ross stressed the need for careful examination of those areas of the analysis that are "beyond