Change Means Loss: Spring and Summer Must Become Winter
Change Means Loss: Spring and Summer Must Become Winter
This chapter considers the inherent human (conservative) tendency to resist change. It argues that for patients in psychoanalysis or in any psychological treatments, where transference of emotions toward figures from the past is evoked, worked with, and flourishes, the promise and especially the bad expectations of spring and of summer gardens can, if the treatment “takes,” inevitably become connected with the analyst's vacation. The ghosts of the parents and parental figures from the past and the intense feelings connected with them are revived and transferred onto the analyst in the present.
Keywords: change, psychoanalysis, transference, parents
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