ABSTRACT
Interpretation and construction are two distinct instruments, but of the same type, the same class. The defining characteristics are applicable to both. Both give the patient information about himself that is pertinent, belongs entirely to him and of which he is not conscious. The chapter begins with the issue of indicators which is different with regard to interpretation and construction, because there is a precise and valuable indicator in the latter that does not exist in the former, and it is the surfacing of a memory pertinent to the construction that has been proposed. It reviews the principal clinical indicators that inform us on the validity of our constructions and interpretations, indicating the particularities each case presents. If monotheistic religion has elicited such a strong adherence among men, this is not because it corresponds to an eternal, material truth, Sigmund Freud concludes, but because it responds to a historical truth.
