J. L. Donnet presents us here with a collection of his principal contributions, made over the last twenty years, to the essential questions of psychoanalytic practice. For the non-native French reader it must be emphasised that from the outset of his thinking Donnet has been intent on establishing a theory of the psychoanalytic setting and its characteristics, and that what he puts forward is an epistemology and a treatment of the psychoanalytic setting itself. He is a rigorous, demanding author, and the processes and method by