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The author believes that a psychoanalytic Weltanschauung can be developed using the point of view associated with the middle group of British object relationists. His attempt at revision is a two-fold critique of Freud as both man and thinker. Freud’s tragic flaw was to prevent genuine intellectual autonomy in his followers. Freud’s classical technique differs from the empathic technique derived from object relations because it results in an authoritarian closure rather than a dialectical openness. The middle group, which offers a consistent object relations theory of the personality, has refuted and replaced the economic viewpoint. Rudnytsky considers psychoanalysis as a hybrid discipline between humanistic and scientific modes of knowledge. Object relations theory places psychoanalysis on a sound empirical foundation. However, the clinical practice of psychoanalysis is linked with hermeneutics. In considering psychoanalytic propositions, it is essential to distinguish between evidence gathered from inside and from outside the clinical session. Evidence gathered from outside is subject to empirical corroboration; evidence gathered from inside is context-based and nonrepeatable.