1. Freud the Founder of Psychoanalysis
... to the conscious mind. Resistance is defined as the unconscious defense against awareness of repressed experiences in order to avoid the resulting anxiety. He traced the operation of unconscious processes, using the free associations of the patient to guide him in the interpretation of dreams and slips of speech. He also developed the theory of transference, the process by which emotional attitudes, established originally toward parental figures ... in childhood, are transferred in later life to other. The end of this period was marked by Freud's most important work, The Interpretation ...
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