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Int J Psychoanal (2011) 92:1159–1181 doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00375.x
The workable here and now and the why of there
and then
Fred Busch
246 Eliot Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-1447, USA – drfredbusch@gmail.com
(Final acceptance date 28 June 2010)
At an earlier time our work as analysts was easier. We searched for the repressed
in order to make constructions that connected the past to the present symptoms.
Making these connections conscious, based upon the continuing influence of the
Topographic theory, was thought to be the curative factor in psychoanalysis. Freud
(1912, 1914) briefly expressed the importance of working in the present but his
main focu