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 <fc green>Definitions of **inflation**:</fc>\\
-§227 "I would suggest that we speak instead of "psychic inflation." The term seems to me appropriate in so far as the state we are discussing involves an extension of the personality beyond individual limits, in other words, a state of being puffed up. In such a state a man fills a space which normally he cannot fill. He can only fill it by appropriating to himself contents and qualities which properly exist for themselves alone and should there- fore remain outside our bounds. What lies outside ourselves belongs either to someone else, or to everyone, or to no one. ... \\ <fc green>A good example of inflation - the office:\\  When, therefore, I identify myself with my office or title, 1 behave as though I myself were the whole complex of social factors of which that office consists, or as though I were not only the bearer of the office, but also and at the same time the approval of society."
+§227 "I would suggest that we speak instead of "psychic inflation." The term seems to me appropriate in so far as the state we are discussing involves an extension of the personality beyond individual limits, in other words, a state of being puffed up. In such a state a man fills a space which normally he cannot fill. He can only fill it by appropriating to himself contents and qualities which properly exist for themselves alone and should there- fore remain outside our bounds. What lies outside ourselves belongs either to someone else, or to everyone, or to no one. ... \\  <fc green>A good example of inflation - the office:</fc>\\  When, therefore, I identify myself with my office or title, 1 behave as though I myself were the whole complex of social factors of which that office consists, or as though I were not only the bearer of the office, but also and at the same time the approval of society."
 §228 <fc green>The locksmith apprentice</fc>
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 === III. The Technique of Differentiation between the Ego and the figures of the Unconscious ===
 §341 "... the ... transformation and dissolution of the autonomous complex. \\
-[[:death|Ω]] §342 "This transformation is the aim of the analysis of the unconscious. <Fc green>(xRef. para. 360, 387)</fc>  If there is no transformation, it means that the determining influence of the unconscious is unabated, and that it will in some cases persist in \\ <fc green>(1)</fc> maintaining **neurotic symptoms** in spite of all our analysis and all our understanding. \\ <fc green>(2)</fc> Alternatively, a **compulsive transference** will take hold, which is just as bad as a neurosis.\\ ... to deal fundamentally with the unconscious, to come to a real settlement with it.  This is of course something very different from **interpretation**. ... in the case of a real settlement it is not a question of interpretation: it is a question of releasing unconscious processes and letting them come into the conscious mind in the form of fantasies. ... \\ In many cases it may be quite important for the patient to have some idea of the meaning of the fantasies produced.  But it is of vital importance that he should experience them to the full ... \\ ...the doctor should assiduously guard against clever feats of interpretation.  For the important thing is not to interpret and understand the fantasies, but primarily to experience them. ... \\ By "human" experience I mean that the person ... should not just be included passively in the vision, but that he should face the figures of the vision actively and reactively, with full consciousness. ... \\ a real settlement with the unconscious demands a firmly opposed conscious standpoint." \\ <fc green>Emphasis mine.  The fact that experience is so important aligns with the energic theory that the image itself, the symbol, the fantasy as a symbol, contains energy and can in itself create the necessary environment for a change in attitude.  See next para. 343, para. 350 and para. 358</fc> \\
+[[:death|Ω]] §342 "This transformation is the aim of the analysis of the unconscious. <fc green>(xRef. para. 360, 387)</fc>  If there is no transformation, it means that the determining influence of the unconscious is unabated, and that it will in some cases persist in \\ <fc green>(1)</fc> maintaining **neurotic symptoms** in spite of all our analysis and all our understanding. \\ <fc green>(2)</fc> Alternatively, a **compulsive transference** will take hold, which is just as bad as a neurosis.\\ ... to deal fundamentally with the unconscious, to come to a real settlement with it.  This is of course something very different from **interpretation**. ... in the case of a real settlement it is not a question of interpretation: it is a question of releasing unconscious processes and letting them come into the conscious mind in the form of fantasies. ... \\ In many cases it may be quite important for the patient to have some idea of the meaning of the fantasies produced.  But it is of vital importance that he should experience them to the full ... \\ ...the doctor should assiduously guard against clever feats of interpretation.  For the important thing is not to interpret and understand the fantasies, but primarily to experience them. ... \\ By "human" experience I mean that the person ... should not just be included passively in the vision, but that he should face the figures of the vision actively and reactively, with full consciousness. ... \\ a real settlement with the unconscious demands a firmly opposed conscious standpoint." \\ <fc green>Emphasis mine.  The fact that experience is so important aligns with the energic theory that the image itself, the symbol, the fantasy as a symbol, contains energy and can in itself create the necessary environment for a change in attitude.  See next para. 343, para. 350 and para. 358</fc> \\
 §343 "Libido can never be apprehended except in a definite form; that is to say, it is identical with fantasy-images. And we can only release it from the grip of the unconscious by bringing up the corresponding fantasy-images."