It is in this state of “intimate separation,” or “deprivation in intimacy,” that analysis is conducted, deriving its mutative power from the tension between verbal closeness and emotional distance. Stone believes, however, that the earlier, gratifying mother must not be totally eclipsed by the later, frustrating one—that the analyst’s “physicianly vocation” must meld with his analytic one if the analytic process is to develop and flourish.
