ABSTRACT

A first glance at the title selected for this symposium suggests that its goal must be to stimulate each of us to try to “put it all together.” But as soon as we address the meanings and levels of meaning that can be given to each of the words of the title—Organizing Complexity, Biological Systems, Developmental Process, Therapeutic Process, The Psychoanalytic Framework—we confront the necessity to acknowledge the diversity of meanings we can give to these words, or at least a diversity of ways each of us might think about how one could go about such a task of integration. The limits of a brief essay allow me only to sketch one idea of the way it might be done.