Abstract
The danger of interpreting too soon - Excerpt from the psychoanalysis of a German-Australian patient The present paper was originally given as an opening lecture at the conference in Stuttgart in October 2009: »Psychic limits and psychic change in psychoanalytic treatment«. This title refers to a central theme in our everyday psychoanalytic work. Freud spoke about the phenomenon in chapter IV of his »Outline of Psycho-Analysis« (Freud 1938, S. E. Vol. 23, pp. 139-208): »Fighting against us, on the other hand, are the negative transference, the ego's resistance due to repression (that is, the un-pleasure at having to lay itself open to the hard work imposed on it), the sense of guilt arising from its relation to the super-ego and the need to be ill due to the deep-going changes in the economies of his instincts« (Freud 1938, p. 181). This difficulty will be described using a clinical vignette from the psychoanalysis of a patient who had lived in Germany as well as in Australia.
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