Psychoanalysis, as a treatment approach, is in its element when it is dealing with the thoughts, feelings, dreams, and fantasies that a person has in the course of living in an “average expectable environment,” in other words, a background not without its pangs and sorrows, but still one that most analysts would probably regard as more or less stable and within the normative range. The few remaining neurotic patients that we are fortunate to analyze painfully struggle with the sham, drudgery, and broken dreams of their lives, and we psychoanalysts feel confident and comfortable in