ABSTRACT
Delving deeply into many key contributions to psychoanalysis, comparing each with respect to certain core criteria, Greenberg and Mitchell (1983) performed an invaluable service for our eld. ey approached their broad task in terms of the challenge to the original, Freudian, drive/structure model posed by later, relational/structure models. With respect to the vital question of whether it is possible to combine these two frameworks, Greenberg and Mitchell concluded that integration cannot be accomplished because the models are based on “fundamentally incompatible … irreconcilable claims concerning the human condition” (pp. 403-404). Repeatedly they stressed their deep conviction that there is “an intrinsic incompatibility between the drive/structure and relational/structure models, one which can be neither overcome nor circumvented” (p. 378).
