For the clinician, psychoanalysis is an emotionally demanding, hands-on profession, not an intellectual exercise, nor a cultural phenomenon. Yet it is impossible not to notice, on emerging from the consulting room and glancing at the newsstand, or browsing through the bookstore, that another "psychoanalysis" exists. It is the psychoanalysis that floats polymorphously in the minds of the press, the general public, the literati, the artists, the revolutionaries, the academics, the politically correct, the politically incorrect, et al. The clinician is apt to shrug off this torrent of written material as