What do we do when we engage in psychoanalysis? What is its course? What are its limitations? How is it transmitted and how is the formation of psychoanalysts possible? Certainly, these are questions that run through the entire Freudian work. However, in the texts of this volume, the above questions are posed in the most direct way.

There are more than one way to read these texts. The simplest would be to read them as excerpts from a manual where some specific handling instructions are provided. However, at the beginning of the first of these (On the Introduction of Treatment), Freud warns that the important thing is that these rules, instructions, and technical observations outlined feel the texture of the unconscious, allow its emergence, and signal its manifestations during treatment.

In the second text (Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through), Freud sheds more light on the process of psychoanalytic therapy itself and its goals. In relation to the time when these specific texts were written, psychoanalytic matters have progressed significantly. However, as Lacan points out in a characteristic way fifty years later, as a reader of Freud, "there is nothing healthier, nothing more liberating than the direct reading of these writings" (Seminar, January 13, 1954).

Indeed, reading these technical texts by Freud gives us a sense of liberation. For the first time, we are offered in a clear manner not only practical rules of a functional character but also examples from Freudian clinical practice.