ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT EVERY PSYCHOANALYTIC PAPER REVEALS some features of its author's personality, I want to present a few details of my own learning experiences which influenced my training and teaching activities. Every analyst gradually develops his or her personal style of technique. In the beginning, however, it is influenced by the experiences in his training analysis and consequently by the technical attitude of his analyst. I started my analysis in 1922. My analyst was Sigmund Freud. I learned from him how the psychoanalytic process evolves. I became acquainted with the emotional difficulties accompanying the uncovering of present and past repressed conflicts, with the resistances and the transference necessary to remove and to work through my neurotic symptoms; and finally I learned as much as possible about my special character peculiarities, limitations, and possibilities. But I learned more. At times of resistance I experienced my analyst's