ABSTRACT
The entire self-processing exercise culminates in the transposing or linking process, in which a trigger is selected, its implications identified, and the themes of the narrative pool are extracted from their manifest context and allowed to connect to or cascade over the trigger and its ramifications. The statement that links triggers to themes is always narrative in nature and structured in terms of cause- and-effect; it is descriptive rather than technical. The conscious system tends to overstate responses to one trigger as a trade off against linking to another, often more powerful and disturbing, trigger. The self-processing instructor must be alert to this kind of disarming communicative defence and set it aside so that the class can engage in linking to all known strong triggers and to all of the triggers that most clearly interdigitate with the thematic pool.
