`titrebFrom Tact in Ferenczi to Resonance in Nicolas Abraham. `/titreb The history of clinical psychoanalytical practice is still very much occulted in so far as most analysts are extremely unforthcoming about how they actually work. Ferenczi was something of a pioneer in this domain. The problem of tact in analysis apperaed in his 1927 work. He speaks of psychological tact and defines it as the faculty of ‘feeling with’(he uses the German ‘Einfühlung’or empathy), but underlines the importance of not laying too much stress on the subjctive factor of this notion but also and equally on the ‘conscious appreciation of the dynamics of the situation.’His disciple Balint continued to work on this notion. Later, Nicolas Abraham put forward a psyhoanalytical conception of the symbol, the meaning of which can only be seen by setting up a resonance with the imagoic structure of the analyst with that of the patient. This happens when the conscious content received by listening to the patient awakens in us, through the specificity of this content, a complementary movement in our unconscious which can be developed in the preconscious and the conscious mind if the analyst has obtained and conserved the best possible contact with the Child that is within him/her.