ABSTRACT
Each of the three models of contemporary psychoanalytic field theory has introduced novel insights, concepts, and technical tools to the range of psychoanalytic field theories and to psychoanalysis in general. Some of what the work on psychoanalytic field theory has offered includes new ways of looking at some fundamental principles and techniques of psychoanalysis. The mythopoeic model brought into fresh relief the psychoanalytic approach of understanding all aspects of the analytic encounter as infused with an essential ambiguity. The mythopoeic model offers fresh insight into fundamental psychoanalytic concepts and techniques and remains perhaps too closely tied with Sigmund Freud's structural model. Each model of psychoanalytic field theory has different expectations of the language underlying the dialogic process between the analytic participants. The bi-personal perspective of psychoanalytic and mental processes is not equivalent to the position that it takes two minds to think.
