“Getting better” means “getting stronger”; health has become equivalent to strength, strength to life. We are built up to break down and then be rebuilt as we were before, like a machine caught in an accelerated feedback. The soul seems able to make itself heard only by speaking the physician’s language symptoms. To be weak and without hope, to be passive to the symptomatic manifestations of the unconscious, is often a highly positive condition at the beginning of analysis. It does not feel positive because our hope is for something else, for something we expect from what we have already known. But death is going on and a transformation is probable.”