Applied psychoanalysis (n.) has seen analysts trespass as amateurs into myth and history, treated as trespassers are — until colonists come to replace the pioneers.
Child analysis (n.) worked with Little Hans because father and physician were one person, combining affection with scientific interest.
Child analysis (n.) mixes analytic influence with education, removing symptoms and reversing a change of character.
Child analysis (n.) is more trustworthy but poorer in material; analysing a childhood neurosis through an adult's recollection is richer but must reckon with the past's refurbishing.
An Imago (n.) is a prototype, father, mother or brother, onto which transference fastens the doctor, as Jung's word put it.
An Imago (n.) is the subjective, often distorted image of a parent that lives on in the patient as potently as if the parent were alive, which is why Jung spoke of imagos rather than of father and mother.
A Imago (n.) cannot be destroyed by analysis: withdrawn from projection, it keeps its original childhood freshness and falls back into the psyche it came from.
The Imago (n.) can be usurped rather than suffered: the patient who resists catharsis has identified with his parents.
Jacques Lacan (n.) spoke of the "ineffaceable character of what is," forgetting how certain lives, by virtue of their history, are relegated to the limits of the effaceable.
Jacques Lacan (n.) is the thinker you cite to show you suffered in graduate school
Jacques Lacan (n.) is a most rewarding writer to 'misread'.