[Critique of social criticism in the interpretation process]

Parin discusses the objections that Rolf Vogt and Peter Passett have raised in Psyche and elsewhere against his call for the incorporation of social criticism into psychoanalytic interpretations. He sketches the development of his own thinking and demonstrates that the psychoanalytic method and a critical view of the societal conditions in which patients as well as therapists live are not incompatible as his critics unanimously alleged.