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Agresión y destructividad
(2006)
Comments on E. FROMM's (see PA, Vol 79:13841) article on the factors influencing psychoanalytic cure and focuses on FROMM's argument that cure does not so much involve the ego's struggle against the instincts as the conflicts that arise between life-denying and life-affirming passions. The primary aim of the therapeutic intervention is thus to heighten the patient's personal sense of conflict to force a confrontation with malignant passions and to strengthen life-affirming forces. The essential elements of analysis include insight, directness, seriousness, and a pungent, realistic grasp of life and death issues.
Dreams and transference
(1996)
Dreams and transference
(1990)
Outlines perspectives of Freud (e.g., 1900) and of E. FROMM (e.g., 1951) concerning the nature of dreams and their relationship to transference. During psychoanalysis, dreamers must begin to experience the intimate global symbol of their dreams and retain consciousness of what had been unconscious to them. This process must accompany what they communicate in the dyad; otherwise the analytic procedure becomes an intellectual construct and analysands remain aloof from their dreams, the latent content of the dreams, and what they could become aware of in the waking state. Relevant dreams of a 40-yr-old man over 4 yrs of analysis are described.