ABSTRACT
The analytic attitude ranks as one of Sigmund Freud’s greatest creations. The simplistic, partisan analyst, working in terms of saints and sinners, victims and victimizers, or good and bad ways to live, is failing to maintain the analytic attitude. The analytic attitude is evident in the analyst’s taking great care to avoid viewing significant problems and figures in either-or terms. The analytic attitude will be evident in the analyst’s making a more modest as well as sounder claim, namely, that a point has been reached in the analytic dialogue where reality must be formulated in a more subtle and complex manner than it has been before. The analytic attitude will be evident in the analyst’s making a more modest as well as sounder claim, namely, that a point has been reached in the analytic dialogue where reality must be formulated in a more subtle and complex manner than it has been before.
