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Personal clinical experience leads me increasingly to believe that the transformative therapeutic factor is not due to the use of a certain technique or a specific theory, but rather to the conscious-unconscious relation of thought between the analyst and the analysand, which determines both theoretical choices and technical interventions.
I have further explored this belief through an analytical reading in the original language of Freud's work Die Verneinung, published in 1925 (Studienausgabe 3, 373-377; Negation, S.E., 19, 235-239). Since it is impossible to deal with so vast a subject in the space of an article, I shall limit my attention to the abovementioned text, although implicit reference is made to other works by Freud, and to the metapsychological studies above all, in particular to Triebe und Triebschicksale (1915a, 81-102; Instincts and their Vicissitudes, S.E., 14, 1171-40) and to Die Verdrängung (1915b, 107-118; Repression, S.E., 14, 146-158).
In what amounts to a theoretical appraisal of one specific text, therefore, I have avoided, for reasons of analytical method, any historiographic reference and thus any comparing of the work of other authors interested in the theory of thinking, such as Rapaport (1950, 161-170)