The study questioned the implicit assumption that sexual fantasies are unidimensional. Using factor analysis, four sets of fantasy themes were identified for males and females. These specific fantasy themes and total fantasy scores were submitted to discriminant analysis using the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and several sexual behaviors as independent variables. In none of these analyses were the discriminating variables for the high versus low total fantasy scores the same as those for the specific fantasy theme scores. Results were interpreted with reference to previous studies.of sexual fantasies. It was concluded that sexual fantasies can be meaningfully treated as multidimensional. 472This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

The author examines Edgar A. Levenson's argument as presented in his two seminal texts (1972, 1983), placing this argument in the context of our work today. Levenson has contributed to a profound shift in our experience of psychoanalysis. By giving priority to psychoanalytic process, he spelled out the implications entailed in the fact that patient and analyst continually influence each other in clinical work. The ongoing relevance of Levenson's work is evident first in his location of therapeutic action beyond understanding, that is, in the spontaneous interaction between patient and analyst, and second in his critique of our uses of abstraction, explanation, and theory.

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