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… the symbolic relation is essentially that of a comparison, but not just any kind of comparison…. In one set of symbols the underlying comparison may be easily apparent, but there are others in which we have to look about for the common factor, the tertium comparationis contained in the supposed comparison.
1 The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) the first is to demonstrate the nature of the analogic, i.e., analogy, and (ii) then to relate its implications and significance to psychoanalytic theory, both in general and in specific. This paper will inquire therefore into the analogic structure of psychoanalytic thought, in both its implicit and explicit manifestations. Various schools will be viewed in their relations to one another in terms of their analogic variation relative to Freudian base parameters. Further, with the rise and impact of psychoanalytic thought in the behavioral sciences, along with the need for a general systems type theory, it is felt that in an inquiry which reveals the structure (analogic) of the model used (psychoanalytic) broader and more explicit avenues of research will be opened.
1a. The view presented here will necessarily be a constricted one; it will delineate the construct of analogy with the analogic in terms which have not been heretofore applied to or connected with the term analogy. The schema is an evolutionary, developmental one