Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through

Written and published in 1914, "Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through" clearly established Freud's position on analytic technique, in which the cathartic method had yielded to the associative method. It thus deserves notice as one of the few technical writings to complement the great metapsychological edifice of 1915. Freud begins the essay by citing the cathartic method, without doubt in order to mention how much he owed to it for having "acquainted him with certain analytical processes," but above all so that the reader could...