SHIFTY RESISTANCES. ILLUSTRATIVE INTERPRETATION OF A DREAM

Abstract

Resistance during the treatment is a frequent phenomenon in the course of the analysis and the psychotherapist has to catch the signs as soon as possible, expecially when they are masked by an apparent willingness and by the reaffirmation of an authentic choice from the patient. The finalistic self-defencing role of the psychic symptoms is one of the most important principles of the
Individual Psychology. So, the neurotic symptomatology, even if patiently pulled down during the treatment, comes up again in an obstinate and polemic way with the phenomenon of the resistance.
The interpretation of a dream, reported by a young woman, exemplifies a shifty and subtle way by which the resistance can express itself the Complex of Penelope