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This is a thorough, detailed study of the various theories concerning how psychoanalysis is passed on to future generations of analysts. The French term for this process is transmission. Girard discusses the history, crises, and contemporary problems concerning transmission, with a thorough review of the literature and summary statements of the problems both in France and in contemporary American psychoanalysis. He concludes with an extensive bibliography on the subject, arranged by topic and covering the major psychoanalytic publications. For Girard, what is transmitted are certain aspects of the analyst's particular relationship with the body of theoretical and technical knowledge as well as with his or her teachers. The main emphasis for Girard, as for Freud, is on the contrast between a knowledge of psychoanalysis gained through lecture courses or reading, and the specific process of analytic training by which the future analyst becomes an analyst. Girard examines Freud's discussions concerning the topic. Freud did not specifically develop a concept of the transmission of psychoanalysis, although he did use the notion of transmission in discussing the passing on of taboos or of cultural and linguistic heritages. Freud discussed transmission in certain texts which were provoked by three critical situations: the break with Jung, the prospects for the development of psychoanalysis after World War I, and the legal ramifications of the Reik affair. These prompted Freud to set down his ideas on the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in "On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement" (1914); "Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy" (1919), "On the Teaching of Psycho-Analysis in Universities" (1919), and "The Question of Lay Analysis" (1926). Early thoughts on and problems of transmission can also be found in The Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. As the movement developed, some fundamental rules of analysis were formulat