title: On the analyzing instrument.
abstract: Starting from certain unpublished remarks by Otto Isakower about "the analyzing instrument," we de define it more precisely. The analyzing instrument has two constituents: a voluntary and controlled, situation-specific and goal-specific regressed state of mind in the analysand and a near-identical one of the same nature in the analyst. These parts function together through mutually evocative communication, leading to the elucidation of the analysand's unconscious fantasy-memory constellations.
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology