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In summing up what I consider to be the "conditions" that trigger off these "screen sensations," one would include, first and foremost, the state of regression induced by the analytic process in the analytic situation. The depth to which regression attains has a close bearing on the reappearance of early sensations and is related in part to the quality of the transference development and in part to certain inherent characteristics in the patient.
As already mentioned, the analytic situation and the technique of analysis are designed to facilitate the regressive process. Analytic transactions are carried on with as little verbalism as possible so that the patient's perceptual environment becomes his foremost concern. No contact is made between the analyst and the patient, because this would flood the patient with too much feeling and interfere with the autonomous developments within him. Moreover, contact also creates problems of countertransference which interfere with the analyst's full appreciation of his own role in this delicate world of "suspended transference."