A Training analysis (n.) is required because conviction comes only from feeling the processes at work in one's own mind.
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The Training analysis (n.) was Jung's demand: analysts need a confessor too, as even the infallible Pope must confess regularly to an ordinary priest.
The Training analysis (n.) apparently aims, in the Freudian school, to make the analyst not a human being but a correct applier of technique.
Training analysis (n.) is the analyst's own rigorous analysis by another, which Jung demanded; self-analysis is Munchausen psychology, since about ourselves we remain blind and need the objective judgment of someone else.
A Training analysis (n.) is short and incomplete by necessity; it succeeds if the candidate comes out convinced the unconscious exists.