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The other [[meaning]] refers to the limitations of what can be [[analyzed]]. Early in his career Freud put forth the [[idea]] that not everything was [[subject]] to interpretation and that we had to acknowledge the unknown element in the [[psychic]] [[material]] studied, even if [[clinical]] and [[theoretical]] efforts were intended to reduce the impenetrability: "The best-[[interpreted]] [[dreams]] often have a passage that has to be [[left]] in the dark, because we notice in the course of interpretation that a [[knot]] of [[dream]]-[[thoughts]] shows itself just there, refusing to be unraveled, but also making no further contribution to the dream-[[content]]. This is the dream's [[navel]], and the [[place]] beneath which lies the Unknown" (1900a, chap. 7).
To this constraint on the "interpretative [[frenzy]]" (as Sándor Ferenczi described it) of some [[psychoanalysts]] was later added a [[discussion]] and evaluation of the limits of the effectiveness of [[psychoanalysis]]. In "[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]," aside even from the limits imposed by the [[resistance]] of [[The Id|the id]], the "viscosity of the [[libido]]," or [[negative]] therapeutic reactions, Freud concluded, "We often have the impression, in the [[case]] of [[penis]] [[envy]] and [[masculine]] protest, of having opened a passage through the [[psychological]] strata to 'bedrock,' and to have thereby completed our [[work]]. Yet it cannot be otherwise, since for the psychic, the [[biological]] indeed plays the [[role]] of the underlying bedrock" (1937c).
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