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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes. — Emerson, Self-Reliance.
The matter of the mechanism of the transference, is perhaps, in a practical way, the most important problem in psychoanalysis, and although it is frequently referred to in the literature, on the whole I think it has been discussed only rarely. With the exception of Professor Freud's articles and the more recent discussion of the subject by Jelliffe in his articles on Technique in the psychoanalytic review there is no adequate discussion of the subject so far as I am aware. Then again it has been one of the points of attack on the whole psychoanalytic movement and been referred to in the controversies in a way which seems to make it imperative that some sort of definite statements should issue regarding it. I especially wish here to call attention to certain features which, while they may be understood by a few technical workers, I feel convinced are not understood outside of this limited group.
In discussing symbolism I have taken the position that the symbolism which was of especial interest and value to psychoanalysis was only a special form of symbolism in general, only a particular manifestation of a general principle. I believe the mechanism of transference should be dealt with in precisely the same way. In