ABSTRACT
To begin at the beginning: it is an open secret that Freud's metapsychology is in essence an intellectual elaboration of his own fantasies about himself. While Roy Schafer may well be correct in stating that the theory of introjects has always had a 'spooky' quality, one wonders whether this does not belong to the actual experience of introjection itself, and therefore to the experience of being human. Psychoanalysis in general seems often to blur the distinction between intellectual and analytical discourse, and it tends to regard the discovery of an unconscious motive as a valid objection to an intellectual argument. One strongly suspects that in practice Schafer is unable to use his action language very consistently, and the author would wonder about clients who are able to tolerate its use for long periods of time.
