ABSTRACT

Analysts today are proud of recovering their essential humanity, and eager to denounce the starchy, old “tool and method pride” identified with Papers on Technique. (An earnest colleague at my institute, puzzled that I was teaching Papers on Technique, asked to be reassured that I taught it as pre-history.) Along with Freud, analysts are far more interested in the discovery aspect of psychoanalysis than in its technique. And rightly so: exploring and discovering constitute the interest, value, and visible activity of analytic therapy.