ABSTRACT
The model of reversible perspective, when applied to the analysis, reveals a complex situation. The patient detects a note of satisfaction in the analyst's voice and responds in a tone conveying dejection. The patient detects a moral supposition in an interpretation: his response is significant for its silent rejection of the moral supposition. In any interpretation there is a significant assumption, one being that the analyst is the analyst: this assumption may be denied silently by the patient. Although he appears to accept the interpretation he denies its force by having substituted another assumption. The debate between analysand and analyst is therefore unspoken; what the analyst says is shown to be agreed by both parties to the analysis, but—it is insignificant. In "reversed perspective" the disagreement between analyst and analysand is apparent only when the analysand appears to have been taken unawares; there is a pause while he carries out a readjustment.
