Abstract: The paper looks into the contradictionbetween the theory of technique andclinical practice at Freud and presents atotally different Freud and not animpersonal, abstinent, neutralpsychoanalyst, a master of transferenceand resistances, expectances inspired bythe classical model of psychoanalysis. Aquestion thus arises: Was Freud in factFreudian? As any brilliant personality, thefounder of psychoanalysis wascontradictory in his statements, this beingone of the roots of pluralism inpsychoanalysis.