At this point in our discussion of transference phenomena, it is necessary to make a digression. We have stressed the outstanding importance of the transference reactions for the psychoanalytic treatment of the neurotic patient. I can epitomize the psychoanalytic point of view by stating that the psychoanalyst takes great pains to provide an analytic situation that will maximize the unfolding of the various transference reactions. This is our prime method for reaching the pathogenic material which is otherwise inaccessible. However, collecting the historical data is only part of the therapeutic process. Another major component is the giving of insight by means of interpretation.