Pedagogic versus analytic: Understanding Freudian analysis and the superego effect of the classical method

Freud's functional concept of psychoanalysis does not only have interpretative but pedagogic and authoritative features as well. So the so-called 'classical method' turns out to have been a biased tradition. Although now generally discarded the classical method still influences analysts to a substantial degree because it exerts an unconscious effect as a superego which promises to shield the analyst from the inherent uncertainty of analytic encounter.