Association resistance

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As Association resistance in which it is psychoanalytic therapy Sigmund Freud a resistance refers to the not to the pathogenic representation relates (the appearance of the disorder), but on mental content with this associated are. Freud's treatment technique of free association is based on the principle of association resistance as a deforming, inner self-censorship .

definition

Freud found that hysterical patients, when reactivating forgotten memories during therapeutic attempts, resisted the therapist's attempts to influence them. This resistance to associations of various topics in Freud's pre-analytic time, i.e. at the time when he used hypnosis and pressure procedures, is the outwardly directed, mirror-image force that appeared when the symptoms of dissociation arose and maintains them.

“So a psychic force, the aversion of the ego, had pushed the originally pathogenic idea out of association and resisted its recurrence in memory. The ignorance of the hysterical was a - more or less conscious - not wanting to know, and the task of the therapist was to overcome this association resistance through psychic work. "

- Sigmund Freud : Collected Works I, p. 269.

There are also ideas so repulsed that do not conflict with the existing mental structure, but are associated with a disparate representation. The association resistance prevents the consciousness of an incompatible idea more reliably, since it also excludes remembering memories . The expansion of association resistance is an important mechanism of repression .

See also

literature

  • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele, with the collaboration of A. Bilger, M. Cierpka, H.-J. Grünzig, R. Hohage, L. Klöß, JC Kübler, L. Neudert, R. Schors, H. Schrenk, B. Thomä: Psychoanalytic therapy. Set: Basics, Practice, Research: Textbook of Psychoanalytic Therapy 1 . Springer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-29750-5 ( 7.2.3 Free association in the analytical process in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian H. Sötemann: Theoretical and phenomenal aspects of resistance in psychoanalysis. GRIN, ISBN 978-3-640-30859-0 .