ABSTRACT
Therapists are constantly having to question the basis from which they speak and understand. While the patient is encouraged to speak as openly as she can, to say what comes into her mind as she engages in the process, which is at the same time free associative and reflective, the therapist has a different responsibility. The analyst-analysand relationship, often thought of as a relationship in which the analyst interprets to the patient what her dreams, associations, unconscious slips and apparently irrational actions and reactions mean, is in reality a partnership. The relationship between body and mind and sexuality is one in which new theory is evolving. The issues that constrain the development of an authentic feminine subjectivity in turn constrain an authentic sexuality. Freud's view that erotic transferences are common is well borne out in the stories about Adam and Edgar.
