ABSTRACT
In this essay, occasions in which the analytic psychotherapist gives interpretative utterance to the soul situation of the patient by saying “I …” on his or her behalf are highlighted. Such “vicarius I-statements,” as these may be called, are not concocted by the therapist as a matter of technique. When authentic, they rather have phenomenon character and are the spontaneous expression in “the form of subject” of what Jung variously referred to as “the coming to consciousness of the psychic process,” “the soul’s speaking about itself,” and “interpretation from above …” Topics include Giegerich’s concepts of “the psychological difference” and “the psychological I,” these in relation to Hegel’s insistence that the true must be known not only as substance, but also as subject.
