In describing the somewhat arbitrary divisions of the analytic process, and in quoting dialogues, series of dreams and phantasies, behaviour during the hour and outside the analysis, from cases illustrative of such periods, I have tried to show a few of the many ways in which a vital relationship between analyst and analysand is essential to the success of the analytic therapy. It is this vital relationship which Ferenczi considered the nucleus around which the analyst's technique should revolve. As the cases reported had necessarily to be taken from my own practice, the descriptions and conclusions are, of course, the outcome of my reactions to the individual patients and of my

attitude towards the experience of being an analyst. I can only hope that I have succeeded in giving some indication of the broadly human scope of Ferenczi's technique.