Obstacles To Psychoanalytic Progress

Unfortunately something else happens as well. üne can only give one's impressions
in de-scribing this second result. Hostility on the one hand and partisanship on the
other create an at-mosphere unfavourable to objective investigation. it does look as
if a number of analysts learn to apply defence-mechanisms which enable them to
divert the conclusions and requirements of analysis from themselves, probably by
applying them to others. They themselves remain as they are and evade the critical
and corrective influence of anal-ysis. Perhaps this confirms the dictum of a writer
who warns us that it is hard for a mortal who ac-quires power not to misuse it.