In an effort to promote greater conceptual clarity and integration in the field, the IPA has formed the Project Committee on Conceptual Integration charged with developing a method of conceptual analysis for the examination of commonly used psychoanalytic concepts across different theoretical orientations. This article by the committee presents both the methodology developed for conceptual analysis and its first employment in the analysis of the widely used, clinically close concept of ‘enactment’ and ‘countertransference enactment’. Hence the article is of interest to psychoanalytic researchers and theoreticians seeking such a framework, as well