The recent attention devoted to the idea of narrative in psychoanalysis represents an important shift in the conceptualization of the epistemological principles seen to underlie the theory as a whole. Freud, it has often been argued, was caught in the snares of scientism, unable to divest himself of the cumbersome baggage of prevailing ideologies as to what theory had to be in order for it to be deemed acceptable. It is high time, the argument often continues, that we reassess this baggage so that we might cast aside what is unnecessary and begin to see psychoanalysis for what it really is, rather than what Freud thought it had to be. Now by and large, this shift has been extremely useful; there is little point in holding onto concepts which may have already seen their day. If their utility has been