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THE DISCUSSION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC process holds perhaps a special interest for the practicing analyst in that this is what we all "do" in our working hours. As the domain of the "what was said and heard and the how it was responded to" process refers to the meanings and operations in the patient and therapist interaction, the way the patient is attended to in the service of furthering the inquiry, or in effecting some kind of successful outcome in the treatment.
I'd like at this point to suggest a framework for organizing an understanding of the psychoanalytic process. The framework represents both from an historic and epistemological standpoint a series of domains from which process can be viewed: I'll refer to these domains as the monadic, dyadic and triadic domains. I'll suggest that each of these successive viewpoints offers a different epistemic model of the reality that pervades the analytic process, as well as a different model of the analyst, which I respectively call the Fantasy or Transference Analyst, the Real Analyst and the Value Analyst. My characterization of this schematic framework is for heuristic purposes of presentation rather than for precise classification per se.
A monadic view of psychoanalytic process achieved prominence in the classical phase of psychoanalysis which is characterized by various intrapsychic, drive theory assumptions and the important