Inhibition: I am because I don't act'

Experience indicates that patients often enter into analysis with the complaint that they can't manage to do the things they want to do; they feel reluctant or unable to act within one or more domains of life, notably in fields such as love and work. According to Freud in Analysis Terminable and Interminable, analysis often - but not always - results in overcoming these kinds of inertias. In this paper we will discuss inhibitions as an obsessional strategy for dealing with desire.…