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Michels feels that good scientific dilemmas are not resolved, but lead us on to other dilemmas. The dilemma of the intrapsychic and the interpersonal has produced several new dilemmas. Is psychoanalysis primarily a clinical theory or is it a general psychology? What is the "critical period" of development that it should study? Some panelists suggest only the oedipal, others preoedipal and perhaps even prebirth. What are the sources and contents of intrapsychic life and how stable is it?