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I want to discuss three sessions that occurred several years into the psychoanalysis of a woman in her midtwenties. A training and supervising analyst carried out the analysis. I adapted the clinical material in my paper from this analyst's published account of the sessions (Silverman, 1987).
We are grateful for the courage and sense of responsibility to the discipline of psychoanalysis that enables this analyst so honestly to expose his work to critical examination and comment. Psychoanalysis depends first and foremost on the opportunity such detailed accounts of clinical phenomena afford for a rigorous examination of the empirical data on which it bases its claims as a clinical enterprise and as a science of the mind.
The analyst tells us that, at the time of the three sessions, he was about to leave on vacation in a couple of weeks. Also, that the movie Now Voyager was especially important to this Patient: “She repeatedly brings up Now Voyager. Is that the script for the analysis?” The script for the analysis! This phrase, hinting at the