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>>15143914
>Thank you for that, I never knew that he completely disavowed it.
He disavowed the idea that telling the patient what is wrong with them unconsciously, and the patient thus having conscious awareness and knowledge of the problem, will help them. He came to see that this just wasn't true: that he could be right, and the patient could know and agree, but their problem would still be there. This led him to revise his theories and techniques in the late 1900s, and especially in the late 1910s. In his papers on technique from this time, he basically started to realize that the relationship of the patient to the analyst, called transference, and its interpretation and working-through, is what causes change -- not conscious knowledge of the problem.This was all a revision and adjustment of analytic theory and technique, not a disavowal of it. Freud discusses some of this in his essay "An Autobiographical Study" and you can find an account of it in most introductions to his work as well.