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We discuss the important issues of scheduling, remembering and retaining and of anniversary reactions from the perspective of time and place in Sect. 8.1. Due to the importance of the reconstruction of the historical and political factors that exert an influence on an individual's life history, we dedicate an entire section to this issue (Sect. 8.2). This is followed by an study of interpretations, a subject which has been a focus of our interest for a long time; here we refer to a treatment that took place many years ago (Sect. 8.3).
A discussion of acting out (in Sect. 8.4) leads over to the topic of working through (Sect. 8.5). The first of the five examples of this issue that we discuss (Sects. 8.5.1-8.5.5) is a detailed description of a case in which traumatic experiences were repeated in transference and of how they were mastered.
Interruptions of treatment are accompanied by particular problems up until the final separation (Sect. 8.6; we discuss the significance of the latter issue in connection with termination in Chap. 9). It is impossible to restrict psychoanalytic heuristics to one section of text in this volume on the practice of psychoanalysis, in contrast to first volume on the principles of therapy (see Sect. 8.2 in Vol. 1). Each chapter of this book illustrates the specific and nonspecific means the patient and analyst use to make their way.
The most convenient arrangement for the analyst is to schedule his appointments so that the m