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In a psychoanalytic landscape of unprecedented diversity, there is a handful of fundamental principles that distinguish psychoanalytic theory from all other approaches to the human mind. Even this handful has undergone modification over the history of psychoanalytic thinking and may be differently weighted or configured depending on theoretical school. Contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers agree on the significance of most of the following ideas: the unconscious, the therapeutic power of transference/countertrans-ference, the importance of subjectively experienced meaning, and the role of the past in determining the present. The last-mentioned one is the primary focus of this chapter.
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