ABSTRACT
To graduate from a psychoanalytic institute is no small thing, considering the hardships and challenges one goes through. Training in many other professions is hard enough, but in psychoanalysis one's very person is at stake, one's most intimate psyche at risk. Freud spoke of a sense organ for the perception of psychical qualities that must be studied for its own sake. He called consciousness an organ for sensing psychical qualities. It is likely that pre-conscious and unconscious processes play a role in this sensing, too. The resilience and resistance and well nigh universality of psychopathic tendencies are knocking on our door, knocking on our psyches and, one hope, in time will stimulate response systems to meet it. Psychoanalysis and literature share a dedicated concern with meaning and how life feels and is lived. Psychoanalysis also thrives in the interstices of meaning and experience and a hunger for wild thoughts.
