In recent years reconstruction seems to have almost completely dropped out of the psychoanalytic literature. Reconstruction initially gained status in our vocabulary probably as a result of the disruption of the original theory of the traumatic basis of neurosis and of the fact that the cathartic method of treatment had proved inadequate. With the publication of Freud's metapsychology papers, which were enthusiastically received by analysts, the importance of trauma, the traumatic theory of neurosis and reconstruction, was minimized and remained less important for decades, even though Freud, in one of his last papers in 1937, clearly indicated the value of assessing the role of trauma and the use of reconstruction. He had not abandoned reconstruction as of basic importance in analytic technique, and he underlined this position in a postscript to Moses