only educate them to become obedient children, and thereby strengthen the very forces that have made them ill--their conservative retardation and their submissiveness to authority. Up to a certain point this is the right way to take with the infantile resistance which cannot _yet_ reconcile itself with authority. But the power which edged them out from their retrograde dependence on the father is not at all a childish desire for insubordination, but the powerful urge towards the development of an individual personality, and this struggle is their imperative life's task. Adler's psychology does much greater justice to this situation than Freud's. In the one case (that of infantile intractability) the positive transference signifies a highly important achievement, heralding cure; in the other (infantile submissiveness) it portends a dangerous backsliding, a convenient evasion of life's duty. The negative transference represents in the first case an increased resistance, thus a backsliding and an evasion of duty, but in the second it is an advance of healing significance. (For the two types, cf. Adler's "Trotz und Gehorsam.") The transference then is, as you see, to be judged quite differently in different cases. The psychological process of "transference"--be it negative or positive--consists in the libido _entrenching itself_, as it were, round the personality of the doctor, the doctor accordingly representing certain emotional values. (As you know, by _libido_ I understand very much what Antiquity meant by the cosmogenic principle of _Eros_; in modern terminology simply "psychic energy.") The patient is bound to the doctor, be it in affection, be it in opposition, and cannot fail to follow and imitate the doctor's psychic adaptations. To this he finds himself urgently compelled. And with the best will in the world and all technical skill, the doctor cannot prevent him, for intuition works surely and instinctively, in despite of the conscious judgment, be it never so strong. Were the doctor himself neurotic, and inadequate in response to the demands of the external life, or inharmonious within, the patient would copy the defect and build it up into the fabric of his own presentations: you may imagine the result.