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Viderman compares writing a book with launching a message in a bottle into the sea, in that one does not know whether it will be found, or whether the
message written will at all resemble the message received. He succinctly reviews and clarifies the main themes of his argument and attempts to answer some of the critical objections raised in the foregoing papers. In particular, he emphasizes analytic space as being uniquely the product of the transference neurosis. He suggests that many of the criticisms fail to recognize that he was talking about the phenomena of the transference neurosis, rather than about the universal disposition for the establishment of transference. Since the transference neurosis is a product of the analytic process, constructions which develop out of the resolution of the transference neurosis must be viewed as having validity only within this field. The transference neurosis constitutes a new psychical formation which is the essential and specific event of the psychoanalytic treatment. His book was an attempt to clarify the difficult theoretical and technical problems which arise from this specific event.