ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic interpretation produces what Bion (1962) terms ‘psychoanalytic objects’ – formulations generated by the psychoanalyst that give birth to ideas that may be of use to the patient and analyst. By conventional standards psychoanalysts say quite strange things to analysands, and analysands are rather tolerant of the analysts’ psychoanalytic nature. Most patients know that what enters the analyst’s mind and exits as his discourse is peculiar to the analytic situation and that interpretations are socially odd creative objects.
