ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the question of whether the ideas and concepts adumbrated here, as well as their clinical applications, suggest a new and additional Weltanschauung for psychoanalysis; a world view that emphasizes constant change, evolution and growth. Psychoanalysis cannot escape the effect: as our psychoanalytic world has grown more "flat": there has been an infusion of new perspectives from around the world that have in short time deeply affected our theory and technique. Sigmund Freud raised the question of whether psychoanalysis offered a new Weltanschauung, or world view, in addition to existing perspectives, such as those promoted by religion and philosophy. The contemporary psychoanalyst must have the capacity to reside in a place between illusion and the truth, fully understanding that sometimes we need a lie to help us begin to bear the truth. The acceptance and clinical utility of the analyst's reveries, intuitions and oneiric experiences lies at the center of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique.
