ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part aims to study certain aspects of the extra-analytical sources that were either present implicitly in the Scientific Meetings held during the Controversial Discussions (CD) or used explicitly by the participants at those meetings. Joseph Sandler's approach becomes particularly valuable when one tries to find the links that tie all those aspects together. To use another illustrious and sophisticated frame of reference, one could, in this case, also perhaps think of what, as early as 1938, Reichenbach, with great social-historical sensitivity, had called "the context of justifications of a scientific statement". The part considers the most important turning points in Sandler's "quiet revolution", to quote the words used by one of his friends, A. Cooper, at a meeting in Amsterdam in 1993. Sandler makes some very poignant statements concerning the importance of adopting the historical approach to psychoanalysis and its conceptualization.
