ABSTRACT
The psychoanalyst comes to psychoanalytic education with a well-developed sense of personal identity, but not of a social identity as a psychoanalyst. The analyst's training analysis "has as its goal the working through of personal problems," and this is the unique feature of psychoanalytic education. The identity of the psychoanalyst is that of a scientist who has knowledge that may be therapeutically or epistemologically effective in a wider range of human behavior. It includes a high degree of integrity in the search for truth as well as the moral commitment to its acceptance whatever its nature may be. It involves commitment to the best in the Hippocratic tradition and the best in the scientific tradition. However, the fact that psychoanalysis has to deal with structured resistances must not be obscured in favor of a definition which might refer to the transactions between the patient's and the analyst's systems of wishes.
