ABSTRACT
This chapter offers psychoanalysis as therapists construe it in daily clinical practice. It considers psychoanalysis as a work in progress, integrating its technique and theory from multiple points of development across a century and more of practice, through forms that are both unique to each practitioner and also aligned with our current understandings of psychoanalysis. The elements of vernacular psychoanalytic expression are always formed through their adaptation within daily use. Vernacular expression marks a transition from the unknown to recognising the overdetermined, multivariate nature of our work. The boundaries and hierarchies of psychoanalysis have been cast through overdetermined collisions of elements shaping its structure and form. Vernacular expressions of psychoanalysis aid the clinician in bridging the caesurae between implicit procedural knowledge and the formulated, consensual authority of received, psychoanalytic theory. This is a gap that parallels the divide between the preconscious and conscious, between the unformulated and its clear articulation.
