ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates the shift with some clinical material and then explores implications for views of the clinical praxis itself. Freud, one might say, wrote Greek and thought Jewish. Sharing this shortcoming with the Master, it became intrigued by the dialectical split between Greek classicism and Jewish Rabbinical thought which has haunted psychoanalysis, including our interpersonal versions, to the very present. The chapter explores that cultural devotion to the Greco-Christian tradition is beginning to fade. What Derrida called "White Mythology" is beginning to lose its hegemony, infiltrated by other paradigms of thought. Psychoanalytic positions need to be fluid. In other words, Freud simultaneously developed a metatheory of neurosis and a perspective on the praxis. The act of therapy—what actually takes place in the interactional field of patient and therapist, including transference and countertransference, used in the most contemporary inclusive sense.
