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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Pliancy

"If a patient communicates to us certain ideas, thoughts and memories after long hesitation only, we feel safe in assuming that they have some connection with his early repressions, or are, at least, devirates of such. By encouraging the patient to conquer his hesitancy when talking to us, we are training his ego to overcome its tendency to "run away" and rather to face that early repression. At the end, after we have been successful in reproducing the situation which originally induced his repression, the pliancy of the patient is splendidly rewarded. The number of years that have meanwhile elapsed prove to be all in favor of the patient. What once scared his immature ego and threw it into panic and flight, appears to the adult-strengthened ego as nothing more than a childish bugaboo." (The Question of Lay Analysis, Sigmund Freud)

Could you please do me a favour and explain what Freud means by the two blue sentences?

Thank you very very much in advance.

Cadzao
  

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At the end, after we have been successful in reproducing the situation which originally induced his repression, the pliancy of the patient is splendidly rewarded. The number of years that have meanwhile elapsed prove to be all in favor of the patient. What once scared his immature ego and threw it into panic and flight, appears to the adult-strengthened ego as nothing more than a childish bugaboo The pliancy of the patient is in his compliance with the therapist and acceptance of the facts of his past.

— Feebs11

  • At the end, after we have been successful in reproducing the situation which originally induced his repression, the pliancy of the patient is splendidly rewarded.
  • The number of years that have meanwhile elapsed prove to be all in favor of the patient.
  • What once scared his immature ego and threw it into panic and flight, appears to the adult-strengthened ego as nothing more than a childish bugaboo The pliancy of the patient is in his compliance with the therapist and acceptance of the facts of his past.
  • He is bending with the treatment.
  • The fact that the events causing the distress are in the patient's distant past is all to the good as he recognizes that his fears are merely childish.
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At the end, after we have been successful in reproducing the situation which originally induced his repression, the pliancy of the patient is splendidly rewarded. The number of years that have meanwhile elapsed prove to be all in favor of the patient.What once scared his immature ego and threw it into panic and flight, appears to the adult-strengthened ego a
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Thank you, Feebs11, so much for your help.

Cadzao
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