ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyses psychoanalytic understanding takes place in a conceptual space that was created by Sigmund Freud's scientific vision. He provides two characteristics of Freud's mind as his starting point, namely his capacity for spatial thinking and his pervasive urge for intellectual integrity which constitute his achievement as well. Over half a century after Freud's death, psychoanalysis can no longer be simply identified with him or any individual analyst. In considering the importance of analytic training in the transmission of psychoanalysis to the following generations, Innes-Smith emphasizes the viewpoint of the inheritance of scientific traditions. Actually, psychoanalysis can hardly survive without attentive guardianship, either as a clinical setting or as a conceptual space under constant pressure of drive instinctual forces and the inherent human reluctance to be aware of them. The goal of psychoanalysis can be attained only through truthfulness and by following the rules agreed on.
