“Evenly suspended attention, young man,” he said firmly. “That’s what you need to give the patient. Evenly suspended attention; words as true now as when Freud first uttered them. That’s what is required of us—to attend to the patient’s words without preformulations, without bias, without personal reactions limiting our vision. It’s the heart and soul of the entire analytic enterprise. Remove that and the entire process goes bankrupt.”
