A 'good enough' analysis is defined as accomplishing three tasks: the reduction of current conflicts to unconscious precursor products and processes; the discovery of conflicts between irreconcilable assumptions (syncretistic dilemmas) that involve areas of uniqueness, value conflict and uncertainty; and, the development of the ability to differentiate between the two groups of conflicts. Because the first group can be resolved by reductionism and the second group through compromise, the fact that psychoanalytic method is defined by the assumptions of Positivism has favoured the belief that a complete analysis only fulfils reductionistic goals. This has limited the inclusion of syncretistic dilemmas in the technique of psychoanalysts. In order to include the second and third goals of analysis in the scientific method of psychoanalysis, the definition of science in which psychoanalysis is embedded must be expanded to include 'artistry' and the assumptions that inform evolutionary biology.