ABSTRACT
I must confess that I am not a psychoanalyst and these occasions therefore fill me with a certain amount of anxiety; anxiety, simply because I am aware that I am with people who are always in touch with very many, very complex, experiences and who are exercising a number of extraordinary kinds of insights and skills which I dont possess. I am listening to them; I am a beneficiary of them; but for anybody who is not actually a participant in this terribly intense process, one has to express, when listening to you, Joyce, absolute awe. What engenders that awe is that somehow lucidity never breaks down, despite the urgencies and difficulties that arise being so extreme. I had intended to make notes during the lecture in order to respond; but I couldn’t; I couldn’t, for I was just so totally gripped.
