ABSTRACT
My point of departure for this paper is the assertion that interpretations become of no use when primitive emotional states emerge, as Spiegelman (see Chapters 17 and 18) and Schwartz-Salant (1989) maintain. This, it is said, takes place in borderline or psychotic cases, or in relatively normal subjects who have reached archetypal layers of the mind. Then a change of tactics is indicated. It is a proposition reminiscent of Jung’s own practice where he changed from reductive analysis to the hermeneutic, synthetic method via an interpretation on the subjective plane, and is probably derived from it without being identical.
