ABSTRACT
Introspection, that any practising analyst can carry out for himself, into what cliches he most commonly uses often suggests that the problem in analysis is to know which of several possible interpretations is at a given time correct; it arises from awareness of the number of ideas expressed in papers on analysis and even more from the variety of human behaviour as it is experienced in ordinary life. Introspection shows most analysts that the theories they employ are relatively few in number and may be seen to fall into certain categories. These categories are not exhaustive or exclusive. The chapter describes that though in practice interpretations will certainly be embodied in the most diverse formulations, theoretically the same interpretation formulated in the same terms may easily be used in all of more ways in the same session.
