Few issues have engaged philosophically minded students of psychoanalysis as much as those connected with the status of psychoanalytic explanation. The depth, volume, and intensity of this multifaceted, fundamental controversy suggest that the Freudian Revolution continues unabated. We are now, as we have been since the inception of psychoanalysis, locked in earnest debate over the basic nature of the enterprise. The underlying questions are: What is it that psychoanalysts seek to explain? How, or in what form, do the explanations occur? To