ABSTRACT
Periods of both smooth and disjunctive evolution have characterized the past century’s developments in psychoanalysis. eoretical conicts have sometimes generated lively, fruitful debate. Other times, handled in a less amicable, dialogical spirit, controversies have culminated in feelings of estrangement embodied in dissociated schools of thought. ese contrasting approaches and outcomes with respect to the confrontation between innovative and traditional ideas bespeak the promise and pitfalls that continue to characterize the path of our young science.
