I worked with a therapist who is a follower of the concepts and techniques in what is called "modern psychoanalysis". The core of this sub-modality of psychoanalysis is working with the client's anger and aggression. He wasn't a very good therapist so not sure if it's representative to psychoanalysts per se, but I will try to describe the elements that I think his approach involved. Initially, he was much more staying back and not interacting much, but I asked multiple times for more engagement and then he changed that style. He was definitely not very self disclosing in session though and stayed with with talking about my things or sometimes conceptual things but kept it quite down-to-earth. We had a lot of between sessions emails off and on, which he sometimes discouraged and said I should express things in session and other times said it was okay. He let me talk about whatever I wanted in sessions and often wanted me to explore how things related to my past experiences and relationships. He also did that thing not answering many of my questions and turning it into an exploration of why I was asking them. He wasn't cold at all in general but I am not someone who likes sweetness in a T, so being a bit standoffish does not bother me if otherwise I feel I have a connection with them. He encouraged free association a lot, which I can do easily but often got frustrated feeling that some sessions were aimless wandering. He never pushed me not to have goals and not to focus when I wanted though. One thing I did not like about him is that he was quite dogmatic, believing and suggesting that what his theoretical orientation states is universally true. Psychoanalysis involves a lot of focus on transference and finding meaning in it, which I like a lot, but this T had a lot of countertransference issues IMO.

I had another, eclectic T, and he was a better fit for for me in many ways, including how he talked about his experiences as they related to mine quite a lot. Sometimes it felt a bit too much like chatting with a friend than a therapy session though because of it.

I have a friend who has been in psychoanalysis for several years now and really likes her analyst. She was looking for a mother figure from start and the T apparently provides a maternal type of nurture as much as it's possible within an ethical therapy relationship. She describes it as very explorative and helpful but says that sometimes the T overinterprets things and puts them too much into a generic psychoanalytic framework.

As far as I know, psychoanalysts are just as varied as individuals as any other therapists, some more approachable and friendly than others. Also, not all of them follow the classical setting of wanting the client to go multiple times a week. I saw mine once a week.

If you have an interest in psychoanalysis, I would say go ahead and try it. You would probably get a lot of opportunities to discuss the relationship and what it means with an analyst.