ABSTRACT
Stating with Freud, psychoanalysis seldom discusses the issue of faith, as most often it is related to religion and is viewed negatively. In the following chapter I will discuss my thinking concerning faith, as an inborn potential versus trust as an acquired capacity, based on one's experience with external present object. In my eyes, faith relates to one's capacity to 'see' beyond what is immediately and 'obviously' there. It has a transcendent quality to it, that is universally human, and not necessarily religious. Faith and trust are both significant to human life, as well as to the analytic endeavor. They are both crucial one for our patients' well-being and to their ability to make good use of psychoanalysis.
