ABSTRACT
The history of psychoanalysis is so full of acrimony that it seems to some outsiders that nothing connected with this field can be held to be securely established. Freud at times had liked to think he had created a neutral science, and that the subject of philosophy was alien to what he had attempted to accomplish. Lacan's success in establishing psychoanalysis in France came relatively late in terms of twentieth-century intellectual life. As in everything connected with analysis, the personal element plays an inevitable part. As we have discussed, Lacan had been analyzed by Rudolph Loewenstein, and their relationship remained at best an ambivalent one. Toleration should not be considered a lack of intellectual ability, but rather become an active energizing ideal. Being tolerant can be more difficult than one might expect. Not being too sure that one is right is a mark of having a civilized intelligence; allowing for give and take is part of fair play.
