John Gedo is a bold, energetic, independent thinker with a wide range of interests and an approach that is conservative and innovative at the same time. He is staunchly committed to traditional Freudian psychoanalytic views, but it is quite evident that he regards them as neither perfect nor sacrosanct. It is clear that he believes our psychoanalytic understandings require continual refinement in an asymptotic pursuit of a completeness and perfection that can be approached but never fully attained. It also is clear that he regards the clinical situation as the most useful laboratory in which to carry out that quest.