ABSTRACT
Every analyst will recall at least one supervisor who shook his head wearily while saying, “You really ought to set some limits,” implying you were being bamboozled by your patient and even colluding in the patient's misbehavior. If you think about it, however, apart from the painful reminder that you were once less skilled than you are now, you might agree that the term does not fit comfortably into the way (I hope) you are coming to think about the analytic situation.
