“Only the psychoanalytic method of interpretation and treatment can yield or mediate to the patient correct insight into the unconscious pathogens of his psychoneurosis” (Grünbaum, 1984, p. 139).

To justify the attribution of Premise 1 to Freud, Grünbaum quotes the following passage from Freud's Twenty-Eighth Introductory Lecture: “After all, his conflicts will only be successfully solved and his resistances overcome if the anticipatory ideas he is given tally with what is real in him” (Freud, 1917a, p. 452).

In this passage, Freud is saying that for an anticipatory