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IT IS A GREAT HONOR and privilege to have been given the opportunity to address you, especially since I have never held office in the Association. In a recent Sunday address, my esteemed friend, Charles Brenner, then President, remarked that one of the perquisites of this high office consists of the opportunity to talk to you on matters that are not strictly scientific (1968).
The broad title I gave my lecture implies a far greater scope than that which I shall talk about. The appropriate title would have been: "Some Tentative Suggestions for Remedying the Scarcity of New Data in Psychoanalysis." These matters are not scientific, but perhaps they are vital to the future of analysis. I shall present to you only my personal views and opinions, strongly held and derived from thirty-five years of experience spent in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic education. I shall endeavor to present these views to you simply, straightforwardly, and as unpretentiously as my personality permits. Since all of us are involved in the search for motivation, particularly when it comes to attitudes pertaining to our own field, I think I owe it to you to sketch at least the timing and reasons for communicating these views.
During the years of 1966 and 1967, while I was taking a sabbatical, I had ample time to rethink my own development, which took place partly in Europe, but to a greater extent in the United