ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the aspects of the therapy relationship that are imbedded in the circumstances of the therapy rather than neurotic difficulties in either therapist or patient. The traditional psychoanalytic model of science is of nineteenth-century science displaced by relativity theory and quantum uncertainty. Psychoanalysis is the search for the unique patternings of experience that characterize each person, as unequivocally as fingerprints. But, ultimately, psychoanalysis is the examination of a unique life in its social matrix. Psychoanalysis and its goals are so tied into the culture and its expectations, tacit and spoken, that an Argentinian Kleinian and a British Kleinian are probably doing different things, using the same language to quite different ends. Psychoanalysis works by examining why psychotherapy and the sweet voice of reason don't work; ergo the pre-eminence for psychoanalytic work of the "resistance and transference". The perspective has changed from the patient's intrapsychic circumstances to something far more interpersonal.
