ABSTRACT
For some years now, it has seemed to me that important aspects of my way of practising psychoanalysis are better described as an analytic style than as an analytic technique. Though style and technique are inseparable, for the purposes of the present discussion, I will use the term analytic technique to refer to a way of practising analysis that has been, to a large extent, developed by a branch or group of branches of one’s analytic ancestry, as opposed to being a creation of one’s own. By contrast, analytic style is not a set of principles of practice, but a living process that has its origins in the personality and experience of the analyst.
