ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the constituents of the analytic attitude, this time, however, from the standpoint of some of the important tensions in the professional life of the contemporary psychoanalyst. It suggests that in one form or another these tensions have existed for analysts almost from the beginning of the development of psychoanalysis. Significant variations exist not only among analysts of the same persuasion but within one's work with the same analysand. In contriving these fantasies, analysands assume implicitly or explicitly that being an analyst is being a finished and fixed product, as though there is an end point to one's becoming an analyst. When analysts belonging to different schools make their competing claims, they very often lose sight of the fact, not only that there are different schools, but that the beliefs within any one school are heterogeneous and have been undergoing evolution.
