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Psychoanalysis is moving toward a crossroad that has long been mapped into the deepening bifurcation of the two distinct sides of its endeavor: the theoretic and the therapeutic. These competing, yet convergent, movements in the overall coordination of psychoanalytic inquiry, although they do not so appear on their face, actually cut across the party lines of interpretation that still separate the various schools of psychoanalytic thought from one another. In all schools, there are those psychoanalysts who attempt to lay out an elaborate construction of theory in abstract form, as though its consistent application, if possible, would result in a clearly definable experience of psychoanalytic therapy; but there are also those who follow the directive guidelines of the coordinated structure of psychoanalytic inquiry—formal, but not rigidly so—in the knowledge