“…After examining the various contributions on analytic neutrality and its relationship with countertransference (Bion, 1959(Bion, , 1962Grinberg, 1956Grinberg, , 1963Grunberger, 1973;Heimann, 1950, Hinshelwood, 1999Hoffer, 1985;Jacobs, 1999;Joseph, 1965Joseph, , 1983Kernberg, 1965Kernberg, , 1975Kernberg, , 1976Kernberg, , 1990Leider, 1984;Little, 1951;Loewald, 1960;Makari, 1997;Meissner, 1993;Michels and Oldam, 1983;MoneyKyrle, 1956;Person, 1963;Pick, 1989;Ramzy, 1965;Reich, 1951;Sandler, 1976;Segal, 1977;Schafer, 1983;Shapiro, 1984;Winnicott, 1947;Wolf, 1993), I will expose the way I now visualize this concept. This may amount to another attempt to find a useful version of it, but after my revision, the conviction of its importance and centrality in the analytic attitude became stronger.…”