fundamentally from one’s concept of his or her coparticipant engagement with his or her patient. The three paradigms of analytic participation cut across traditional theoretical lines. Most analysts who practice some form of coparticipant inquiry identify themselves in terms of their metapsycho- logical affiliations or schools, such as interpersonal, self-psychological, Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, etc., rather than in terms of the model of praxis that guides or informs their way of working. My aim here is not to give the definitive word on coparticipant inquiry rather, I want to draw attention to emerging coparticipant trends in psy- choanalytic praxis that push us to the farther edges of accepted analytic investigation. This book is an exploration of an emerging unique psycho- analytic paradigm that promises an innovative approach to the analytic task. In my exploration of the coparticipant themes and concepts that arise in the study of such psychoanalytic phenomena as the therapeutic dialectics of the multidimensional self, the dynamics and therapeutics of narcissistic processes, the “living through” process, the “analytic working space,” and the therapeutic implications of “openness to singularity,” I will touch upon the central controversies in clinical psychoanalysis. This includes a discussion of questions such as: What defines the most effective approach to transference analysis? What is the role of extratransference inquiry? What are the promises and perils of countertransference analy- sis? What is the analytic role of regression? How do analysts listen? What is the role of dream analysis? What is the nature of therapeutic action in psychoanalysis? These questions represent some of the major questions and controver- sies that divide contemporary analysts who draw from different para- digms or models of inquiry. In sum, the clinical controversies that charac- terize contemporary psychoanalytic praxis derive from different concep- tions of the coparticipant psychoanalytic situation and its constituent processes of dyadic interactivity and psychic subjectivity. An analyst’s position on these clinical axes determines his or her theoretical under- standing of psychoanalysis and the analyst’s role in it as well as the details of his or her praxis and its therapeutic potential. 6 Introduction