Pasche asks whether classical analysis has a future. Or has it been simply a transient phenomenon linked to a certain period of history, that of the decline of religion and the questioning of traditional family and social values concomitant with rapid scientific progress? Will new ideologies, bearing new and perhaps better founded values, invalidate psychoanalysis? One might expect it to disappear along with a certain life style, as a luxury that can no longer be afforded, an artifact of certain socioeconomic conditions. The periodic, isolated meeting of analyst and patient, its apparent lack of direction, it maladaptiveness with respect to daily life, could be viewed as futile, artificial, unreal; for nothing transpires in the analytic setting except desires, dreams, fantasies, memories, and the words to say them. But what is reality? Pasche explores the difference between representations and reality,