Dear Mr. Tuckett,

I am grateful to Dr. Plaut for his careful reading of my paper ‘Reconsidering three aspects of psychoanalytic technique’ and the interesting questions of technique that he raises in his letter. He suggests that perhaps the use of the analyst’s state of reverie that I discuss might lead to an undervaluing of transference interpretation or perhaps may even be seen as a substitution of reverie for the interpretation of the transference. In responding to this concern, I should make clear that I view the goal of the analyst’s use of his reverie experience to be the understanding of, and eventual interpretation of the leading anxiety in the transference. I