title: [Scene and symbol as driving forces. The unconscious fantasy in the transference].
abstract: Scene and Symbol as Motive Forces. Unconscious fantasy in transference.--Psychoanalysis regards unconscious fantasy as the motive force in human life. The analytic situation provides a framework for the crystallisation of unconscious fantasies. In the transference process fundamental scenes from childhood are reenacted, organised in terms of symbols and charged with meaning. With reference to a number of actual cases, the author demonstrates that scenically condensed, repressed conflicts thus develop psychic virulence and that in this scenic context the so-called Zeigarnik effect brings the unconscious fantasy to a standstill, allowing it to live on in the memory as an unconcluded action. Conclusion is however a necessary condition for forgetting. Only when this standstill is overcome via transference is psychic growth possible again.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Ietswaart
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004328:Drive; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013561:Symbolism; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology