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The author regards the rigid application of the psychoanalytic basic rule of free association as an externalization of the intrapsychic struggle surrounding the patient's and analyst's resistances. The externalization prevents what a recognized rule of psychoanalysis demands: that the resistances against making a content conscious be analyzed before the contents themselves are worked on.