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The author defines the function of repetition in the analytic process in terms of the space between repetition as resistance and repetition as the basis of something new. Between repetition as resistance and as the basis of the new, transference appears in its objective and narcissistic aspects. Interpretative work aims at abandoning the repetition of that which is identical and that which protects the subject from death anxiety and absence of representation, at the risk of immobility and closure. The analytic setting favors the repetition of sameness to open the way to new psychical productions.
The dynamic aspect of transference requires a working through that will reorganize the unconscious-conscious dimension, but will also reorganize the psychic economy, therefore requiring a strategy and a “necessary time” for psychic work. This time will allow the patient the organization of a “psychic space” to recover contact with his or her own desire and thought.
In the clinical work the analyst must pay attention to the preconscious, which mediates unconscious-conscious relations and internal-external connections. Inter- pretation is the vehicle of representation in words through which the analyst's analyzing function will be introjected. The analyst must first try to associate rather than to know, and must be surprised by his or her own associative capacity. The analytic process will be organized by interpretations in the transference, in which the analyst becomes the figure on whom the patient finds support against anxiety; the risk of early interpretation of unconscious fantasy is that it may reinforce the attack by a persecuting superego projected onto the analyst. The interpretation in the transference therefore precedes that of the transference. (The first refers to the description of the emergent phenomena of the relation the analysand develops with the analyst, the latter describes these phenomena as part of a history with the primary objects.) Following Diatkine a