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ONE CANNOT READILY REFUSE AN invitation to have the last word, but this particular proposal is doubly welcome since I shall have the opportunity to comment as well on that very challenging essay of Dr. Myerson's (1981) along with that of Dr. Horner.
To begin with I think that we have all learned that the meanings of words evolve over time and thus maintain no lasting moorings to particular things or ideas. Conflict is such a word in psychoanalysis, and it requires a sort of seasonal re-scrutiny to see just what it presently means to us all. My aim in the article that Dr. Horner mentions was to highlight the fact that the meaning of conflict has come a long way from what Freud had originally intended and that much of the word's present usage could be quite at odds with Freud's. I certainly believe that life (and development)