ABSTRACT
In his theoretical writings, Masud Khan managed to place the psychoanalytic experience within the history of Western culture. The Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Arthur Couch paid tribute to him saying: He was a real intellectual. Khan’s theoretical contribution to psychoanalysis is important. It could be said that Khan’s theory came from the Gods and his behaviour from the Devil. One cannot say that he is a woolly, pretentious, deceitful theorist. He’s not. All his human failings were on the quality of what he did rather than his theory. Khan was a scholar and very generous as to other people’s influence on him. He was not just an extension of Winnicott. Rycroft introduces a note of criticism into the praise for Khan’s theories. Taking up Khan’s metaphor in his collage paper, Rycroft feels that Khan’s personality had an element of collage whereby his ideas were not integrated or properly worked over in his mind.
