ABSTRACT
This chapter shares the author's reflections on the construction of interpretations. Interpretations are part of our mental activity as human beings, based on our need to make sense of the world that we inhabit, as well as the experiences that we live all along throughout our life. As psychoanalysts there is a specific activity that we need to accomplish, the building of interpretations when we have to play our role with our patients. From an epistemological point of view, interpretations are hypotheses that analysts construct in their minds, which may or may not be communicated to the patient with the intention of promoting a movement within the session with the goal to facilitate psychic change. The conditions for the production of interpretations are related to the two basic facts of the psychoanalytic frame and to the limitation of the activity of the analyst only to verbal interpretations.
