‘Two Encyclopaedia Articles’, written in 1923, Freud issues instructions to both participants in what Bollas terms ‘the Freudian Pair’. Freud describes the task of the analysand thus: The treatment is begun by the patient being required to put himself in the position of an attentive and dispassionate self-observer, merely to read off all the time the surface of his consciousness, and on the one hand to make a duty of the most complete honesty while on the other not to hold back any idea from communication, even if (1) he feels that it is too disagreeable or if (2) he judges that it is
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