It goes without saying, almost, especially in this issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry inspired by his contributions, that Lawrence Friedman has created an outstanding collection of psychoanalytic-psychotherapeutic essays, one that any clinician in the field must admire and be grateful for. His mastery of the history of psychoanalytic thought is superb, informed as it is by his own original synthesis and by insights of remarkable clarity. In the face of such perceptiveness, where so many questions of central importance have been addressed with so much subtlety and finesse, we are left with one disappointment: Why hasn't this powerful mind solved for us a seemingly simple conundrum confronting psychoanalysis ever since early in the century, when Freud first commented upon the reverse alchemy of transmuting the pure gold of psychoanalysis into it baser alloy, psychotherapy? Why hasn't Friedman, in other words, more effectively distinguished between psychoanalysis and the psychotherapy that serves as the subject for his many unique and penetrating contributions? Friedman