ABSTRACT
Hoffman, like the authors previously discussed, contends with an inability to know a world independent of his perceptions of it and finds a primary stimulus for his innovative thinking in the resulting ambiguity. At least within the analytic hour, however, Hoffman 's approach (perhaps more in the tradition of Spence than of Schafer or Stolorow) compromises less in an attempt to stake out more solid epistemological ground. Rather, Hoffman stays near the nexus of his uncertain experience of the world and attempts to build a basis for a new perspective for psychoanalysis on that very point.
