ABSTRACT
"Credo: The Dialectics of One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies" (1989) was the first of three groundbreaking papers, along with "Masochism, Submission, Surrender: Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender" (1990) and "Paradox and Process" (1992), that Emmanuel Ghent published in the dawning days of relational psychoanalysis. The combination of rigorous, comprehensive, penetrating and creative engagement with a wide range of theories, contextualized by a personal, direct expression of his own values, sensibilities, experiences and beliefs, was what made Ghent an inspiring, transformational teacher. Ghent's remarkable sense of the history of psychoanalysis, as well as its contemporary transformations, is on full display in "Credo". His grasp of the ebb and flow of theoretical emphases in our short history made for a heightened consciousness of the ways in which theory itself, and his own beliefs about it, were always in flux.
