ABSTRACT
When I presented versions of the various chapters of this book at conferences, lectures, and seminars in different countries, a question kept returning. “What are the implications of your ideas for psychoanalytic theory? Do you have any idea how to turn these insights into a coherent theoretical structure?” My answer was always “no,” as, for a variety of reasons, I do not believe in grand theorizing in psychoanalysis (Strenger 1991, 2002).
