ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic interpretation cannot be thought of independently of, for example, the concept of the unconscious. The psychoanalytic site changes, interpretation and the issues involved in it advance with it, at least potentially. The psychoanalyst's interpretation then introduces a third-party function, a refusal that participates in symbolization, the stage director of castration, introducing the structuring quality of what is lacking. Interpretations had then to deal not only with the resistance of censorship or the difficulty of catching hold of the repressed representation behind all its disguises; resistance itself can be unconscious, and the ego's capacity for synthesis may be in difficulty. The psychoanalyst constructs and preserves the conditions under which an analysing space becomes possible, that is, a potential space in which analysands can bring into play and construct the meaning of what they have experienced and what they can take hold off from within themselves.
