ABSTRACT
Clinical psychoanalysis is now in the midst of a conceptual revolution that has been waiting to happen for at least two decades. The regime under siege traces its lineage to Freud’s metapsychology. The banner that has quickened and mobilized the long-standing discontent is narrative theory. 1 Now that the battle has been joined in earnest, the time has come to ask three questions: How is it that narrative transformed loose, dissenting alliances into a full-scale faction? Just what conceptual territory is held by each side? What can we expect to be the future course of the conflict?
