ABSTRACT
Analytic identity is a result of contextual experience more than a learned technique that may reflect a certain cultural compliance. It is no less the personal qualifications that factor into the type of work we do, the type of theories to which one may resonate and the diagnostic population one treat. The identity of the analytic lexicon is molded and shaped through increasingly defined sense of culturally attuned defined empathy. In the mid-nineties a psychoanalyst/academic distinctly made the point that the diagnostic spectrum was widening from treating those able to develop an analyzable transference neurosis to increasing disorder of the personality and ego dysfunctions. Culture forms an integral dimension of treatment and this paradigm is especially relevant for those who are members of a generation that grew up listening to wartime atrocity narratives. And that experienced fragmented familial histories, where "looking forward" was heralded as virtue and "looking backward" was dismissed as a moral failure and cultural treason.
