On a spring afternoon, I approached a Manhattan cross-walk with my 3-year-old daughter in hand. Not a car was in sight. I began strolling across the street when I felt a tug. My daughter pointed to the blinking red sign and said: ‘it says don’t go’. As the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud tried to formulate rules to teach his students how to make their way effectively and safely across many a mental street. Though the promised textbook on psychoanalytic technique never appeared, Freud offered his acolytes ways of learning through his expositions of dream analysis, his published case reports, and of course his seminal