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IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO HAVE this opportunity to discuss the intersection and interaction between psychoanalysis and anthropology since these were the questions which motivated my career choice almost 30 years ago. Dr. Harrington and I share a background in psychological anthropology. We were strongly influenced by our contact with John Whiting (1953), (1961), one of the geniuses of the "Culture and Personality" movement. At that time, what was labeled "arm-chair anthropology" had a very bad reputation. The term evoked the image of speculative evaluations of so-called primitive cultures being made by refined upper-class intellectuals who really didn't want to get their hands dirty—being unwilling to go into the field to live with the people and absorb the culture through one's pores. The conception was rather like that portrayed in "The Accidental Tourist" (Tyler 1985), reading travelog-styled ethnographies rather than suffering the shock of engaging with an alien culture. To earn any credibility in the world of anthropology one had to pay the dues of scholarly toiling