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Let us be human.
First of all, I would like to thank Jay Greenberg for having asked me to comment on this group of essays by extremely well-respected authors who were invited to write about the topic of the relevance of the concept of truth in psychoanalysis. I find this discourse to be of great importance, not at all an abstract or philosophical one, and I feel that it has definite consequences on both theoretical and technical levels. In discussing the various papers—which I have very much appreciated for what they say, and perhaps even more for the questions that they raise—I will follow a path leading approximately from the more traditional positions toward the more innovative ones, in order to highlight an emerging paradigm in psychoanalysis. Here and there and in the concluding section, I will also express my own opinions on the topic.
I will try to identify in the various papers a kind of red thread in which the connections between truth and immediacy (Blass 2011) and between truth and unison are interwoven in various ways, both explicitly and implicitly. To my mind, in assigning value to these connections, we can begin to construct a new common ground in psychoanalysis. The