ABSTRACT
It is often said that faults are more easily seen in others than in one’s self. Indeed, this would seem to be the main justification for employing someone other than one’s self to be the analyst to whom one goes. The disadvantages of the arrangement become clear when the observer, psychoanalyst, sees faults that are his own in place of the defects of the analysand who supposedly has come to have his defects exposed, demonstrated (and dealt with?).
