ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some questions of psychoanalytic technique. It focuses on those ways in which the analyst can use himself or herself to facilitate the analytic process and analytic possibilities. Winnicott focuses on the importance of knowing one can evoke the analyst's hatred so that one can work through one's own, and of the opportunity to experience that it is possible for the analyst to withstand and survive one's aggressions. The analytic transaction, by its very interpersonal nature, thus provides unique opportunities for new experiences. Clarification and resolution of difficulties relating to self and other in the analytic interaction allows for the possibility of new experiences of relatedness in the analytic context. The degree to which the patient experiences increasing trust in his own perceptions and in his interpersonal autonomy and effectiveness, in the analytic interaction, becomes a measure of analytic progress and a basis for new degrees of self confidence and self-esteem.
