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… But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
-Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
FROM ITS BEGINNING, PSYCHOANALYSIS has thought of itself as a genetic psychology, regarding each behavior as part of a historical sequence determined by epigenetic laws and cumulative experience (Freud, 1905). To put a finer epistemological edge on the preceding, each behavior has been thought of as part of a genetic series and, through its antecedents, part of the temporal sequence that brought about the present form of the personality and its psychic organization (Rapaport and Gill, 1959). In this sense, the infantile, the adult, and the transference neuroses may be considered to be joined referents within a genetic series. Even more pertinent to the greater methodological question before this panel1 is the adductive relationship assumed to exist between the infantile and transference neuroses.