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This Question brings to mind two experiences which occur repeatedly and regularly in my own practice.
The first concerns those applicants who wish to undergo an analysis and ask me to orient them. I have come to realise that, in order to reply to them, I have to set about making a special kind of assessment (une curieuse estimation). After I have tried to discern the nature of their trouble and their aptitude for self-confrontation, I do not try to think of those therapists whom I consider the more skilled or the more knowledgeable, but one, or