ABSTRACT

It was suggested in Chapter 7 that it might be useful to distinguish between the process of psychoanalysis and its other aspects, there summarily labelled ‘content’, without any attempt to characterise content, though content would have to include at least some account of what people think, feel and do, how they behave and respond: the findings of psychoanalysis. Another aspect of psychoanalysis would have to do with formulations about the ‘structure’ of the mind, metapsychology, allied inevitably to its metaphysics, i.e., its ontology and epistemology. These three aspects of psychoanalysis, process, content and structure, will be found to be interrelated but in what way they are interrelated is beyond the scope of this paper.