Freud's Papers on Technique is usually treated as an assemblage of
papers featuring a few dated rules of conduct that are either
useful in some way, or merely customary, or bullying, arbitrary and
presumptuous. Lawrence Friedman reveals Papers on Technique to be
nothing of the sort. Freud's book, he argues, is nothing less than
a single, consecutive, real-time, log of Freud's painful discovery
of a unique mind-set that can be produced in patients by a certain
stance of the analyst. What people refer to as "the rules", such as
anonymity, neutrality and abstinence, are the lessons Freud learned
from painful experience when he tried to reproduce the new, free
mind-set. Friedman argues that one can see Freud making this
empirical discovery gradually over the sequence of papers. He
argues that we cannot understand the famous images, such the
analyst-as-surgeon, or mirror, without seeing how they figure in
this series of experiments. Many of the arguments in the profession
turn out to be unnecessary once this is grasped. Freud's book is
not a book of rules but a description of what happens if one does
one thing or another; the choice is the therapist's, as is the
choice to use them together to elicit the analytic experience. In
the light of this understanding, Friedman discusses aspects of
treatments that are guided by these principles, such as enactment,
the frame, what lies beyond interpretation, the kind of tensions
that are set up between analyst and patient, the question of
special analytic love, the future of analytic technique, and a
possible basis for defining Freudian psychoanalysis. Finally, he
makes concrete suggestions for teaching the Papers on Technique.
Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice will
appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists
concerned about the empirical basis of their customary procedures
and the future of their craft.
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