ABSTRACT

It would be difficult to imagine a psychoanalytic experience more stimulating or thought-provoking than rereading Freud's "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" and examining from our current perspective the many important issues it raises. The questions Freud posed then are fundamental to controversies in psychoanalysis to this very day. Some of the answers he proposed seem outdated and patently incorrect, while others are penetratingly perceptive, anticipating major lines of development for psychoanalytic technique.