ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic work is most intriguing. After years of a training analysis and the spirited if intense companionship of different supervisors, the psychoanalyst is at last delivered to his place of vocation, seated in that very particular chair, behind that even more special couch. To that place of employment the analyst brings his many acquired skills; he is equipped with cabinets of psychoanalytic models of the mind and theories of motivation and mental process, and yet, how strangely removed from obvious use these factors are when the analysand enters that space and takes up his position. It is such an amazingly complex phenomenon. Shall we ever truly understand it? I wonder.
