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In this article, I discuss the role that traditional analytic theory plays in my clinical work. By describing my efforts to utilize theory productively, I hope to illustrate a problem shared by a great many psychoanalysts: the difficulty in analytic treatment in finding a balance between inadequate attention to theory and excessive dependence on it.