COVER -- CONTENTS -- CONTEMPORARY FREUD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- PART I "On beginning the treatment"(1913c) - Sigmund Freud -- PART II Discussion of "On beginning the treatment" -- 1 "On beginning the treatment": a contemporary view -- 2 From past to present: what changes have occurred in the acceptance of the conditions for psychoanalytic treatment and its setting? -- 3 Transference and associativity, psychoanalysis, and its debate with suggestion -- 4 The person of the analyst and role of intersubjectivity in beginning the treatment -- 5 Swimming one's way up to the fundamental rule -- 6 How Emmy silenced Freud into analytic listening -- 7 The work that leads to interpretation -- 8 Interpretative function: two characters in search of meaning -- 9 How to modify the unconscious: a transformational-modular approach and its implications for psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- 10 Conflicting forces: on the beginning of the treatment -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.