The postmodern critique of psychoanalysis resurrects the problem of suggestion in full force. Contemporary psychoanalysts rely on 1 or more of 6 related strategies to avoid this unfortunate consequence. However, as Freud recognized early on, such strategies alone cannot remediate this problem. Without a viable solution, practitioners must confront the possibility that their interpretations enjoy no hegemony over nonpsychoanalytic ones and that their therapeutic results may be indistinguishable from the effects of suggestion and influence that they ambivalently embrace.