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Fear in an individual is provoked either by the greatness of a danger or by the cessation of emotional ties …; the latter is the case of neurotic fear or anxiety.
[FREUD, 1921, p. 97]
ALTHOUGH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SYMPTOM FORMATION ARE WELL documented in psychoanalytic literature, there is relatively little written about it during the course of analytic treatment. The literature which does address this issue focuses mainly on transitory symptoms during the course of an hour or several hours (Ferenczi, 1912); (Isakower, 1938); (Pious, 1961); (Luborsky, 1967); (Luborsky and Auerbach, 1969), the ebb and flow of psychosomatic ailments and conversion symptoms (Dunbar, 1938); (Bergler, 1946); (Bettelheim and Sylvester, 1949); (Glover, 1955); (Hendrick, 1958), the occurrence of symptomatic acts and acting out (Glover, 1924), or on the reappearance of old symptoms during the terminal phase (Schilder, 1938); (Rosenblatt, 1963); (Miller, 1965). Most of these authors relate the onset of symptoms in the course of treatment to the emergence or interpretation of significant unconscious material, but data from actual cases are