ABSTRACT
The issue of work was one of great importance for Dr. Greenson. Following Freud's dictum that to be mentally healthy one must be able to love and work, Greenson was indeed a worker. In reading the literature of psychoanalysis, it would appear that the term working through has achieved a status analogous to that of a generic pharmaceutical. It cuts across all theoretical persuasions and is apparently accepted as integral to the process of analysis, no matter what analytic language is being spoken. In achieving such a universal status, the concept has tended to lose specificity. In the 1960 seminar, Greenson addresses an issue that was uppermost in his mind at that time, the corrective emotional experience, as put forth by Franz Alexander, M. D. Greenson, like Fenichel and Rado, compared working through to mourning in that both involve separation and a loosening of past reactions.
