ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the skewed perspectives that can arise within one’s own attempt to become a psychoanalyst. First, as psychoanalysts, we are constantly in the process of shaping ourselves as psychoanalysts. Second, the process is unending. No matter how experienced we are as psychoanalysts, there is always the question, How does this next thought, this next act, this next intervention contribute to the therapeutic action? Third, this process of continually coming back to ourselves as psychoanalysts is itself part of the therapeutic action, in both of the above senses. What are the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity that are appropriate to us as psychoanalysts? It seems to that we should begin by returning to a primordial meaning of subjectivity. The psychoanalyst constitutes herself as a certain kind of subject by repeatedly and creatively bringing herself back to the project of becoming/being a psychoanalyst.
