REGRESSION, EGO INSTINCTS AND TRANSFERENCE In these chapters, Freud discusses how sexual frustration can lead to neurosis through regression and repression and how the patient can transfer his sexual conflicts onto the psychoanalyst in a process called transference. Freud claims that if the libido is not satisfied during childhood, these frustration moments can be fixated; again we see the importance of childhood and sexuality in human development. Later on in life, the individual can return to the moment of fixation, leaving the genital organization that is characteristic of the adulthood phase, and show the perverted sexual desires of childhood. In the previous chapters, Freud had introduced the concepts of libido and sexual organizations and in This chapter Freud develops them further under a very systematic approach to uncover the causes’ the hysteria. Freud believes that these external...