ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytic object had three 'dimensions'; sensa, mythology and analytic theory. Correct interpretation depends on the analyst’s being able, by virtue of the Grid, to observe that two statements verbally identical are psychoanalytically different. The elements of psychoanalysis are ideas and feelings as represented by their setting in a single Grid-category; psychoanalytic objects are associations and interpretations with extensions in the domain of sense, myth and passion, requiring three Grid categories for their representation. The practical significance of this is that if they are elements, despite any appearance to the contrary, it is necessary to know of what psychoanalytic object they are a part.
