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In doing psycho-analysis I aim at:
Keeping alive
Keeping well
Keeping awake
I aim at being myself and behaving myself.
Having begun an analysis I expect to continue with it, to survive it, and to end it.
I enjoy myself doing analysis and I always look forward to the end of each analysis. Analysis for analysis' sake has no meaning for me. I do analysis because that is what the patient needs to have done and to have done with. If the patient does not need analysis then I do something else.
In analysis one asks: how much can one be allowed to do? And, by contrast, in my clinic the motto is: how little need be done?
But these are surface matters. What are the deeper aims? What does one do in the professional setting that is so carefully prepared and maintained?