ABSTRACT Freud argued that the dreamer and, by extension, the neurotic adult regresses from the realities of the chronological present to the still conflictual strivings and anxieties of childhood. These strivings and anxieties were thought to operate, largely unchanged, in the timeless unconscious. There they awaited activation by day-residue filtering down from the adult present. Many theorists—even those who departed significantly from Freud—endorsed this premise. A recent critique has emerged, however, to challenge the reduction of adult suffering to the mere revival of childhood problems. This paper articulates and extends the critique to envision a life-span trajectory in which the subject cannot regress, but can only move forward through the reiteration of old problems in new contexts that give rise to novel mental configurations. The implication is that a complete analysis must go beyond childhood to recognize the emergent potentials—and the dangers—that reshape the contours of adult mental life. The case of a thwarted male artist in his thirties illustrates the clinical importance of this revision.

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摘要弗洛伊德认为，做梦者，以及由此而扩展的神经质成年人，从时间顺序的现实倒退到童年时仍然矛盾的努力和焦虑。这些努力和焦虑在永恒的无意识中被认为在很大程度上没有改变。他们在那里等待着从成年成年人那里过滤下来的日间残留物的活化。许多理论家，甚至那些与弗洛伊德大相径庭的理论家都认可了这一前提。然而，最近出现了一种批评，以挑战减少成年人遭受的仅仅是儿童问题的复兴。本文阐明并扩展了批评的范围，以构想一种人生轨迹，在这个轨迹中，主体无法消退，而只能在新情况下通过反复重申旧问题而前进，从而产生新颖的心理形态。这意味着必须进行全面的分析，才能超越童年时代才能认识到重塑成人心理生活轮廓的新兴潜力和危险。三十多岁的一位受挫的男性艺术家的案例说明了这一修订的临床重要性。