03/06/2023
On interpretation #1
“...the conditions (i.e. for interpretation) are complete when the analyst feels aware of resistance in himself - not counter-transference - but resistance to the response he anticipates from the analysand if he gives the interpretation” (Bion, 'Transformations', 1965, p. 168).
In other words if it does not take courage to say, it probably is not the truth of what you think of the patient's material. The courage required relates to the potential explosiveness of the truth, which may certainly, as Bion asserts again and again, be the food of the mind but also threatens the person, really analyst and patient alike, with the catastrophic change of becoming a different person."
- Donald Meltzer
Quoting and commenting on Bion in his book, "The Kleinian Development", 1978, pp. 359-360: ▶️ https://pep-web.org/browse/document/ZBK.140.0356A