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This author compares the study of Psi to a fisherman putting out nets; we don't know what we might catch or how to bait the net. Another metaphor, one that implies tragedy, is that we are like a Greek chorus that is powerless to enter into the action that has been foretold. Eisenbud states that participants in a psychoanalysis are ideally under continuous observation. He does not mean an experimental analysis viewed through a one-way mirror. Two examples are given that portray the way in which the analyst observes himself at the time of the reporting of Psi by the patient. The author claims that at this time the patient's dreams foretelling rejection, separation, or disaster mirror highly specific and similar material that the analyst is struggling to repress. The examples given are not convincing and probably cannot be within the limitations of the printed word; they seem to be laborious attempts at denying a very simple positive transference interpretation. This seems to be the fate of all psychologically minded people who see layers of hidden meanings emphasizing pathology, hostility, and death to the exclusion of eros.