An Irruptive Response to Dr. Leszcz’s Discussion

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Notes

¹ The unconscious can process emotional material in its own good time, producing derivatives in dreams, symbolic langauge, transference-countertransference configurations, and so forth.

² “Irreducible irrational involvement” (Renik, 1993; 1995) cannot be eliminated. Our “internal and external dependencies, anxieties, and pathological defenses…[respond] to every event of the analytic situation” (Racker, 1968, p. 132).

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Richard M. Billow

Richard M. Billow is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, and Director of the Group Program, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.