ABSTRACT
Dear friend, Your question as to whether to place the patient on the couch or on the chair
is part of the many things a novice analyst usually wants to explore. If we think about the history behind these two options, we can easily see that this question is secondary. The important question is why we use the couch, since this position, where a person lying on the couch is speaking to someone who sits behind him, seems absurd and surrealistic to most people.
