Overwhelming environmental trauma may result in dissociation and overwhelming fantasy or urge may result in repression. Repression, dissociation, and active reversal are equally basic modes of confronting and resolving conflict, impasse and crisis. Repression and dissociation create introjects,i.e. When in crisis, people tend toward regressive repetition. Crises are the occasion for the activation and enactment of earlier prototypes of conflict, pleasure and proven resolutions.
Growth involves repetition.
Autonomy grows out of successful dependency at it's own rate. Analysis begins with the recognition of an open ended process and ends with the recognition that it could go on forever. Maturation and the development of personal characteristics involves relationships moving from the dyadic to the triangular. Identifications start with a significant dyadic attachment and develop with an appreciation of the significant other's attachments. The development of non constitutional personal characteristics can be understood in terms of fixations, regressions, and resolutions that developed in reference to dyadic and triangular dilemmas and opportunities.