ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that a correspondence between myth and the items of the horizontal axis of the grid analysts, who are used to observing patients with which psychoanalytic Oedipal theory endows them, will find it easier to make the transition from theoretical background to consulting-room phenomena. The verbalizations of the patient, and behaviour associated with them, seem to vary from something incoherent and meaningless to formulations that appear vaguely to be inviting comment, sometimes even suggesting the comment that they invite. The components of the myths that the chapter wishes to use are those which pictorialize, in the sense of internal pictures or symbols that we make for ourselves, features that might turn out to be the psycho-analytical elements. The signs chosen to represent the elements are to aid in working on and thinking about the experience of the analysis.
