ABSTRACT
Very little has been written on humility in the field of psychoanalysis. PEP-Web (the electronic compendium of analytic literature of over 100 years) lists ten papers with the word “humility” in their titles but most of them focus upon the exhortation for psychoanalysts to exercise modesty and temper their enthusiasm for this or that theoretical persuasion. Only one paper (Weber, 2006) has something to say about the concept of humility itself. In addition to this paper, I have been able to locate a chapter on humility in Paul Marcus’s (2013) book, In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis, and the Sacred as well as a few passing remarks here and there in the psychoanalytic literature.
