ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that S. Freud’s heritage goes far beyond his words and comprises his conception and creation of a psychoanalysis in which whatever he has discovered is subjected to constant recasting. Psychoanalysts may mourn pathologically for Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, in accordance with his own description of this phenomenon in “Mourning and melancholia”. The author observe the anxiety aroused by heterogeneity, the fear of explosion, and the tendency to split off any disturbing factor and to retain only what “fits in smoothly”. The author shows that the psychoanalysts in training who feel most comfortable about suggesting a psychoanalysis to a patient are those who badly needed their own personal analysis and who benefited greatly from it. They have experienced the way their psychoanalysis changed their quality of life, and they wish to allow others to profit from analysis, owing to their conviction that, as in their own case, it presents patients with a great opportunity.
