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Emerging from the European psychoanalytic arena, this is an interesting paper that explores, amongst a number of other things, the influence of deep-rooted, ideal notions of analytic authority and objectivity pervading psychoanalytic culture, that naturally have a bearing upon individual psychoanalytic practice. It is how these factors manifest at the particular point of initiating analytic treatment that is the main focus of Moller's article. Moller also explores what appears to be a kind of identity crisis amongst psychoanalysts and the psychoanalytic establishment about the numbers of people embarking upon what is termed full analysis (which is presumably psychoanalytic treatment at a frequency of greater than three times per week). The article seeks to establish whether there is something highly complex that occurs during initial meeting(s) that results in fewer people embarking upon more frequent psychoanalytic treatment in favour of lower frequency psychotherapy. This may well strike some as a contentious distinction that places full analysis at the top of a hierarchy - the gold standard from which all other modalities devolve and dilute. Moller's paper suggests, however, that these and similar attitudes in relation to ideals about what constitutes proper analysis are also held within psychoanalytic societies, leading to defensiveness and loss of contact with what she refers to as ordinary analytic work. As Jungians we will, no doubt, have plenty of both our own and similar struggles with ideals that can impair our capacity to be authentic in our work. But we can mindfully draw from Jung in his discouragement of the doctrinal application of rules and theories (Jung 1954, p. 7), and his realization that the analyst is just as much in the process as the analysand. This is so because of the mutual influence at the heart of the endeavour (Jung 1954, para. 163) depicted in Jung's well-known diagram of the deep mutual influence of the unconscious of patient and anal