GENERAL REMARKS PERTAINING TO THE FIRST TWO LECTURES (1954) BY J. L. MORENO ON TRANSFER- ENCE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Abstract

These days, when the Freudian revolution has reached a status of conservative reactionaryism, Moreno's lectures are refreshing. After nearly a half century following Freud's tremendous discoveries, his spirit of scientific experimentation appears to have been dissipated. This deficiency can also be noted as one of the cardinal symptoms of the pre-Freudian descriptive psychiatry era. And this is both frustrating and alarming. In fact, analism can be seen as a vicarious vicissitude in the sneer toward the "appearing" radical departure in psychotherapy