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Quotation from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
“The work of overcoming resistance is the fundamental task of the analytic cure”
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Lecture XXVIII, trans. Authorised translation, Boni and Liveright (1920)
In his final lecture Freud distinguishes analysis from hypnotic suggestion by the patient's own labour against resistance.
Citation: "The work of overcoming resistance is the fundamental task of the analytic cure" — Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Lecture XXVIII, trans. Authorised translation, Boni and Liveright (1920). (id freud-general-introduction-to-psychoanalysis-q6)
