ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic practice requires faith, and transference of faith to that liminal relationship between past and present, between repetition and recreation. Sigmund Freud retreated to skepticism late in his career, dismissing as naive any notions of innate sociability and of the transformative powers of love. Psychoanalysis is perpetually unsettled but inevitably secured by its fidelity to desire and to the transference to which desire speaks. Freud's practice of free association combined two signature freedoms: free speech and freedom of assembly. Both a means toward, and a consequence of, achieving attachment security, such semiotic agency is the natural by product of a commitment to free thought and free speech. It takes no great leap to imagine that what promotes a secure home base also promotes homeland security. As metaphor, and as that which stands at the frontier of reality, feminine law is the originary metaphor of our space between, a space between telepathy and touch that refutes dichotomy.
