ABSTRACT
Most of the former analysands were deeply reflective about the self-analysis process. Most analysands who engaged in post-analytic self-scrutiny leading to insight sometimes did so with an emphasis on independent self-exploration, such as when analysing their dreams. In earlier times, analysts thought that the different ways people integrated an analytic experience reflected a continuum of internalization. In the past, analysts believed that using a self-analytic function reflected emotional development in so far as it was a way of internalizing the object and of dealing with loss, grief and separation. Post-analytic self-exploration is seen as a way of keeping alive the analytic process as well as the analytic relationship, now as an internalized relationship. Those who demonstrated abilities specifically associated with the analyst's functions acquired and internalized those capacities during analysis itself. This chapter demonstrates the absence of a self-analytic function did not mean that analytic work was not assimilated and kept alive in some other fashion.
