The conversation--On writing in tha transitional state--Transitional thinking: psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodernist theories----The selves' conceptions--Freud: initiation and ommission in psychoanalysis--Lacan and Winnicott: splitting and regression in pyschoanalytic theory----Gender(s) and dis-contents--Feminisims: stories of gender----Knowledge in question--Postmodernism: thinking in fragments--No conclusions: gender, knowledge, self, and power in transition