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Resistance is continuously present and requires constant attention throughout every analysis. Descriptively, an endless variety of resistive manifestations exists. Freud1 recognized five types of resistances of which the first three are ego resistances: (1) repression or defense resistances, (2) transference resistances, (3) resistance due to gain through illness, (4) super-ego resistance, and (5) id resistance.
Glover2 states, “The most successful resistances are silent, and … the sign of their existence is our unawareness of them.” In the same work, Glover also mentions cultural manifestations of resistance, listing two: (1) anxiety and snobbery over cultural accomplishments, and (2) fears of analysis sapping the patient's cultural and ethical attainments.
Culturally based forms of resistance, however, have much broader and richer variety than Glover's brief mention would imply. My subsequent remarks will attempt to demonstrate this point. Essentially, I will be discussing transference resistances as defined by Freud.1 Two cases will be reported in which each patient uses his Jewish identification in a different way but for the same purpose, namely, to serve the resistance.
The first patient is a 35-year-old married professional woman, who entered analysis because of depression and hysterical symptoms following the diagnosis of a fatal illness in her young daughter, who died after the patient had been in analysis for about one year.