ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will compare Freud’s theorising regarding some of his key psychoanalytic concepts and how he applied them in psychoanalysis with those of our four psychotherapists. The discussion will be limited to comparative comments of four critical concepts—the unconscious, the role of affect, resistance and the defences, and the transference, and its modern day conceptual companion, experience-nearness. A much more thorough working through of the same issues will be undertaken with respect to the clinicians’ commentaries on the transcript of an analytic session (see Chapters Eight and Nine ).
