ABSTRACT
Interpretation is more than psychoanalytic technique. It is a human experience necessitated by the depth, complexity, and concealment inherent in the personality and human affairs. Interpretation takes on special significance in psychoanalysis as a means of "making the unconscious conscious." In psychoanalysis, interpretation deepens towards that which is concealed and inaccessible, the other. It aims towards that which is barred from the conscious mind: "the un-conscious." The distinction between interpretation as a consciously applied methodology in psychoanalysis, versus its spontaneous occurrence in nature and life, rekindles the heated debate about whether psychoanalysis is a science. Psychoanalysis begins at a critical crossroads between science and humanism. While the therapist made a timely and useful interpretation of the dream, it could be said that the dream itself already contained that interpretation in statu nascendi. That is, the dream constituted in "primary process" form the very interpretation given by the analyst.
