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Theoretical and Transferential Debacles in Analysis of Humming: Or, Play It Again, Sam. Samuel Juni and Bernard Katz. Pp. 235-244.
Juni and Katz disagree with some aspects of de Chumaceiro's reinterpretation of Juni's case material of an obsessive hummer. Juni stressed characterology and historical antecedents of symbolism. Adequate interpretation does not result in total resolution of conflict, because conflict is an inherent condition. Humming was not viewed as a constricted symptom, but ancillary to the severe obsessional character structure of Juni's patient. While transference interpretation is important, "insistence on the centrality of transference in all interpretations is capricious and clinically biased." Finally, the authors question the belief that, given correct technique, there is a "truth" which can be fathomed in the analysand's productions.