ABSTRACT
During termination of a beneficial analysis, the analyst and analysand confidently believe that they have shared a profound experience. They have shared in the emotionally arduous and exhilarating construction of a more or less coordinated set of histories of their relationship; only secondarily have they shared in the relatively more cognitive task of constructing the analytically illuminated and reconstructed biographies. There are two major implications of the foregoing discussion of the construction of psychoanalytic histories. First, by emphasizing and actions that make up the analysis, the discussion reinforces the already generally accepted assertion, initially and frequently made by Sigmund Freud, that the defining issues of the psychoanalytic process are transference and resisting and their interpretation and relative resolution. Second, it reveals the analyses of transference and resisting not merely as technical issues and contents of interpretation, nor as means to the end of “cure,” but as issues of psychoanalytic epistemology.
