Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory

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This volume consists of a series of essays, initially inspired over thirty years ago by Freud''s paper on Gradiva - ""she who steps along."" The bas relief on the cover of this book hangs in my consulting room today, as it had in Freud''s own, perhaps as a reminder of what we do. In Jensen''s story of Gradiva, a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions and is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not challenge these delusions, but rather ''steps along'' with Hanold, gradually helping him to disentangle truth from fantas.