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THE PURPOSE OF of this presentation is to review: (1) some concepts of the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy; (2) certain preconceptions and conclusions pertaining to this; and (3) a few ensuing expatiations or expansions that lead to the consideration of psychoanalysis as a science and, eventually, to its contributions to a science of man. In the process I intend to be more critically exploratory than candidly expository, more subjectively selective than eclectically objective. This intention states from the outset that I have some serious questions regarding the relations between psychoanalytic goals as they pertain to psychoanalysis as a method of treatment, and psychoanalytic goals as they reflect scientific concerns or ambitions. My "questions" are neither new nor unique. But they beg to be restated because a number of proposed, proffered, or purported "answers" to them have tended to explain the substance of the questions away rather than to consider their ambiguity in depth, if not to accept their existence in perpetuity.
To begin with, an alternative title to my inquiry could be: Why