Constructions in psychoanalysis: On the ‘assured conviction of the truth of a construction’

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Notes

1. The following additional citations reinforce the argument that the character of construction of transference and memory was already clear to Freud. The “battlefield” (Freud, 1934a, SE 16, p. 455) of the transference neurosis, which he referred to as the “artificial illness” (Freud, 1914g, p. 153) was not to be considered identical with the “key fortresses” of neurosis (Freud, 1934a, SE 16, p. 455). Freud emphasizes that: “It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood: memories relating to our childhood may be all that we possess” (Freud, 1899a, p. 321).