Questioning Authority is a collection of ten essays written by Stanley Leavy over the course of twenty-six years. The subjects of the essays are very diverse, but they all are grounded in his understanding of the analytic endeavor. He summarizes his view of analysis succinctly near the end of “Self and Sign in Free Association,” where he writes: “For me, a longtime expositor of psychoanalysis as a process of dialogue, the work of theory in our field is to lay hold of the unconcealing of the self that takes place in the speech of our patients, and wrestle intellectually