ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide aspects of Donald Meltzer's ways of working which characterized his practice as a psychoanalyst and which, are important in appreciating his originality. The Psychoanalytical Process is exemplary in rooting the ideas presented in clinical detail, and the chapter that describes the process in an individual session with a 4½-year-old girl seen in analysis from the age of 3 is a very powerful example of Meltzer's approach. He reminds that a sensitive appreciation of both natural and man-made worlds, as of the riches of art and literature, is what makes for an imaginative response to the language of the unconscious. From the analyst, the contribution required is the provision and maintenance of the setting and a steady commitment to "working through", S. Freud's profound conceptual contribution to understanding the idea of process in psychoanalysis.
