Un pensiero pensante Reflections on the exercise of thinking in analyst training

The author cites a clinical case-study to show how the inhibition of thought may arise from an unconscious need for compensation which prevents the subject from acceding to the new and unexpected, which is actually part of bis own self-fulfillment. The author then discusses how analysts are trained, showing how the relationship to theory may also obey the sarne contradiction. In one case, one may remain trapped in a need for orthodoxy ; in the opposing case, one may be willing to accept the flaws in the theory, in order to perfect both it and the failings of its analyst parents. The article ends with a consideration of what the term “post-Jungian” may cover today.