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This very unusual book is the story of one man's search for salvation. This in itself is not an unusual theme but, because the person concerned was an influential and innovative psychoanalyst, the story immediately acquires a new dimension. It provides a unique opportunity - unique at least in the sense of being public - to see how important advances in theoretical understanding are linked to fundamental life problems of the analyst.
In one sense we know this already. From Freud's self-analysis, for example, we know that his discovery of, and monolithic emphasis on, the Oedipus complex was linked to his own unresolved pathology in this area. I think we are also beginning to know that many of the early schisms in psychoanalysis, and perhaps the later ones as well, were at least partly based on the differing pathologies - and hence differing sensitivities - of the dissident analysts.
Notwithstanding, this is not the official view. This still regards the analyst as one who quasi-objectively surveys his patients' pathologies, in turn making sense of them in terms of established theories. Only when these prove insufficient is a new piece of