As implied by the tittle of my paper, I think that I have discovered a technical improvement that fits better into the roots of psychoanalysis than into any one of its many current branches. My first point is that the ?abreactive phase? of psychoanalysis was prematurely closed for lack of appropriate tools to investigate the stream of consciousness or, we should rather say, the stream of unconsciousness. After abandoning hypnosis and experimenting with other suggestion techniques (such as the la