ABSTRACT
The analyst decides whether to intervene with an interpretation, decision, and its components of loneliness and introspection, should be regarded as an element of psycho-analysis at least from the point of view of the analyst and therefore probably from the point of view of both patient and analyst. Introspection, that any practising analyst can carry out for himself, into what cliches he most commonly uses often suggests that the problem in analysis is to know which of possible interpretations is at a given time correct. This chapter anticipates by saying that the categories apply to the use to which "thoughts" may be put, once they have been represented by patient as well as analyst. It has been taken up with a particular aspect of what may broadly be called thoughts after the thoughts have been represented by words or combinations of words.
