ABSTRACT
Life is a complex whole. It can only artificially be separated into parts, analysed. Such isolation becomes necessary when we want to know what a particular set of forces contribute to the total phenomenon or, to put it more precisely, how the whole is affected by the absence or altered function of any one part. The healthy organism functions as a whole and can be described as a system in a dynamic equilibrium. Disturbed function is due to disturbance in the equilibrium of the total situation. Psycho-Analysis opened this territory up by developing three major tools: A method of investigation called free association, a mode of understanding the full, unconscious, meaning of conscious thoughts, motives, actions, and the relationship between the two spheres of mind, and analytic situation, between the analyst and the analysand. Without these three tools, the knowledge of the unconscious and the analysis of the transference situation, no analyst can work.
