Mans Unconscious Conflict a Popular Exposition of Psychoanalysis
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Almost every drop of water is destined to be directed through the raceway and to take its part in turning the mill wheel. The points which this simile illustrates are that in the stream of mental life there is almost no possibility of the existence of absolutely undi- rected conscious thinking, no matter how great efforts may be exerted to attain it. The undi- rected thinking consciously attained in the free associations of the psychoanalytic method of re- TWO KINDS OF THINKING 179 search are u...ndirected only in a greater degree than those of ordinary thinking. The dam is, so to speak, partly taken down but not entirely. The extent to which the dam is taken down measures the degree of " transference " mentioned in Chap- ter XI and the success of the analyser in dis- covering the main currents of the craving which is the cause of the disturbances he is to remove. On the other hand, there is in the streaming of the unconscious craving a great amount of water that spills over the dam and whose power is wasted, power which should be directed into the raceway and help to turn the mill, a member of the figure of speech here used which represents the purely human element.
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