Knowledge as fact and knowledge as experience: Freud’s “Constructions in Analysis”

We claim no authority … we require no direct agreement from the patient, nor do we argue with him…. In short, we conduct ourselves on the model of a familiar figure in one of Nestroy’s farces … the manservant who has a single answer on his lips to every question or objection: “It will all become clear in the course of future developments.” [Freud, 1937d, p. 265]