ABSTRACT

It is evident that there are vast differences among psychoanalysts in their perception and uses of these issues, which, if not ultimately resolvable, are, at the very least, orienting. The problem resides in the nature of psychoanalysis, which may be viewed not as a unique phenomenon but as one of that large group of activities that are both performed and talked about. The gap between what is done and what can be known and said about what is done is the epistemological dilemma.