In this paper, I explore the kinds of difficulties arising during the writing process as seen in students embarking on, engaged in the midst of, and at the stage of completion of a dissertation. I am specifically concerned with the dissertation completed as a part of a humanities-based program in contrast to an empirical piece of work based in a scientifically oriented program. Contained in this process can be the experience of a terror of what the dissertation represents, a breakdown in the relationship to the dissertation, the sometimes shattering or at least wounding of an illusion around one’s abilities and a loss of the capacity to think about the subject matter of the dissertation, and a violent emergence of a painful object relation. Here, and in characterizing such a process in general terms in relation to inhibition, I differentiate between barriers (largely to do with practical limits, the nonnegotiable inabilities and disabilities), blocks (related to processes of defense against anxiety, where anxiety is evaded or eradicated), and impasses (where both student/author and supervisor are caught in a collusive dynamic, conscious and/or unconscious, that adversely affects progress), emphasizing that these are not distinct aspects of the process, but act as intersecting and overlapping, indeed connected, contributors to the process of struggling with the task.

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论文写作过程中的抑制：障碍、阻塞和僵局。

在这篇论文中，我探讨了在学生开始、从事论文和完成论文的阶段所看到的写作过程中出现的各种困难。我特别关注作为人文学科课程的一部分完成的论文，而不是基于科学导向课程的实证作品。在这个过程中包含的可能是对论文所代表的恐惧的体验，与论文的关系破裂，有时会打破或至少伤害一个人能力的幻觉，以及丧失思考主题的能力论文的问题，以及痛苦的客体关系的猛烈出现。在这里，在用与抑制相关的一般术语来描述这种过程时，