The author discusses how psychoanalysis can be transmitted to today's students in order to arouse and develop their sustained interest. The significance of this issue is paramount in view not only of the current “crisis” in psychoanalysis but also of the lack of research on this subject—a lacuna possibly connected with Freud's original ambivalence towards academia. The author begins his argument by discussing Freud's ideas outlined in “Some Elementary Lessons in Psychoanalysis.” He then goes on to describe in detail the methodology he has adopted in his teaching practice, as well as the different stages of its development. Finally, he illustrates his reasons for choosing this method both in a Tavistock-style school of child psychotherapy and in his university courses with postgraduate and advanced students of clinical psychology.