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IN 1968 the Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh requested that a Ten-Year Plan be drawn up for the University. Whatever may have been the fate of that Ten-Year Plan—it never emerged—a combination of Pittsburgh tribulations together with concern about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic education has pushed me toward my topic of today. I have several points in mind: (1) the milieu in which the university, on the one hand, and psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts, on the other, would like to steer a steady course has nowadays become a seething multidimensional flux, and we are—with all of mankind—like naval apprentices struggling to round the Horn at night in an equinoctial gale; (2) there is no guarantee of smoother seas ahead, and little, indeed, even of hope that the period 10 years hence will provide any greater serenity; (3) as psychoanalysts we are at best viewed today by the majority of our fellow voyagers as either irresponsible and irrelevant, or unimportant; at worst, because we have unfixed the underworld, as responsible for much of the woe that besets humanity; (4) being human, and frightened, we analysts disagree among ourselves, are suspicious of one another's personal views and group persuasions, and opt diversely for various courses or for attempting