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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRANSFORMATION OF the self, as Sullivan (1940), (1954) emphasizes, always takes place within and through a human relationship. This paper is an inquiry into the curative nature of that relationship; its focus will be on the therapeutic and interpretive implications of a particular aspect of the analytic relationship—what I call the living through process.
As background for discussion, I would like to review my working concept of clinical psychoanalysis. The psychoanalytic process may be defined broadly, in generic terms consistent with Freud's (1914) early metapsychology-free definition, as the reflexive co-inquiry into dissociated or unassociated psychic experience for the therapeutic purpose of its radical restructuring. This definition, in my view, permits diverse conceptualizations of constituent analytic processes and procedures, without metapsychological or methodological prejudice.