ABSTRACT
We are discussing different psychoanalytic cultures, "different ways of thinking", as pointed out by Green. Green, for his part, warns us in chapter four that it is important not to confuse the infantile and the infant. In his paper "L'enfant modlee", he points to the idea that observation studies hoped to find visible in the child what is invisible in the adult when the structure of the child has been derived from the knowledge of the structure in the adult. At the outset, Stern agrees that infant observations can never prove or disprove a clinical or theoretical tenet of psychoanalysis. Green would be in agreement with this. The analogy with music, however, may lead us to another view. In his monumental series of volumes on the analysis of myths in South America, Levi-Strauss suggests that "one cannot translate music into anything other than itself." Meaning is thus ultimately produced by interaction between the listener and the music.
