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To the Editor:
READING IRA MOSES' ARTICLE, "The misuse of empathy in psychoanalysis", (this Journal, 24: 577–594), an article which provides, among other things, a thoroughing effort to define the concept, and which alerts us to a variety of pitfalls in using it, set off the ensuing flow of thoughts and associations.
Helpful as Moses' analysis might be (i.e., the concept of empathy can have varied, ambiguous, and fuzzy meanings; empathy can be employed to avoid transference and counter-transference phenomena; its use may bypass considerations of character, etc.), I think that our very mode of dissecting an idea may work to our