ABSTRACT
For all of Freud's devotion to the classic determinism of the Greek myths, his psychoanalysis was firmly imbedded in the rabbinic tradition; where infinity of meaning and plurality of interpretation are the cardinal virtues. Even now, all contemporary psychoanalytic interpretive systems offer so much latitude and choice (timing, focus, developmental level of interpretation, resistance, transference) that every interpretative offering of our messenger, the therapist, is inevitably a highly overdetermined participation which reveals as much about the therapist as it does about the patient. Analysts become anxious about being anxious and the language of discourse begins to obfuscate the issue, what Jacobs, quoted by Peltz, calls the 'phraseology of interpretation' becomes prolix and obscure. Interpersonal psychoanalysis is, of course, at this late date no more monolithic a theory than any other. In 1968, Racker said, 'The first distortion of truth in the 'myth of the analytic situation' is that analysis is an interaction between a sick person and a healthy one'.
