ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the differences and similarities between literary and psychotherapeutic interpretations by encountering dia-logic contraction with dialectic destruction of texts. It utilizes the psychiatric concept of self-deception to demonstrate how the dia-logic struggle with deception paradoxically contributes to the preservation of truth in psychotherapeutic texts. The chapter introduces the midrashic method of al-tikrei to demonstrate how the dia-logic system of interpretation may be used as a model, or metacode, for reframing therapy and for literary deconstruction. The psychotherapeutic text would be more useful than the literary manuscript for deducing the true meaning of the mystic experience under consideration. Self-deception has been defined and described as an act of interpretation in which a person writes or narrates his biographic life story. The chapter provides a discussion on a dia-logic metacode, in which truth emerges from an encounter between two contrasting interpretations according to which pessimistic and optimistic interpretations coexist.
