Free association, of a depth kind, your content output is indeed closer to the dream and fantasy worlds .

If you are truly achieving free association, of a depth kind, your content output is indeed closer to the dream and fantasy worlds than the one of your everyday mind usage. At some moment you might feel it’s silly or close to madness to persist. Depth level free association is not exactly a waking dream, because much of one normal personality shapes where and to what extent it may provide or block insight. And you can turn it off as you wish. Also it suggested spaced daily, half hour sessions is the best way to avoid burn out or the unwanted obsessional flooding that a few may be prone to. One size does not fit all and common sense must prevail. You have a responsibility to your self not to overdo any procedure of any kind.

Everyone can be assumed to have resistances, which as vague as the term is, implies a force of a 'anti-insight' nature also that is a basic human mind event.

Happiness or unhappiness results in how one handles effects of real life as internally measured against hidden repressed content of the personal unconscious (Freud) and the even less accessible ancestor set content and its recurring pressures. These pressures as proposed by Szondi are to be identified, in respect to their directional content. That they are also psychiatric conditions in their exaggerated form is almost beside the point.
( a confusion that persists, even with those who write on the subject).

It is that they represent forms ancestor gene passed, as today’s needs, strivings and drives that also belong to a characteristic type.

In this view, self-analysis is interminable and always present. Just as your drives are always present. However its inner connections and vicissitudes can and should be improved as best one can, thus this recommendation is also a mental hygiene procedure.

Self-sabotage –unpleasant as that sounds is more common that one thinks, it also applies potentially to any self-improvement efforts one seeks to make. It is of course resistance in another form. It is a realty you need to recognize.

Often when one is advancing at a comfortable pace, systematic some of the many forms of neurotic sabotage may interfere, such a perverse pleasure in reducing the promise any implied advantage to absurdity. Or the claiming of total disillusionment, hopelessness and despair. When it is not totally the truth. Or even claiming some other thing has transformed them miraculously!

The effect of interruptions of self-analysis is the temporally losing of the gains from the insight discoveries made to that point. This kind of resistance becomes even clearer when episodically alcohol and drugs are used as if chemical hammers to make them feel better and at the same time to avoid and re-repress the key conflicts that they were close to understanding. One should note that the term 'backsliding' applies not only to alcoholics, but all the rest of us in respect to any desires for an inner change.

At some point, an interrupted self-analysis or analysis can and should recommence, We learn from therapists that interrupted therapies on restarting often need a kind of warm up, with a tacking self doubts, guilt . and negative feelings that followed the interrupted sessions. This is relevant no doubt, in cases when the same type thing happens in a depth level self-analysis.