ABSTRACT
Psycho-analysts should determine whether they are talking of means of communication, including verbal communications, as things-in-themselves or whether they are talking of other things-in-themselves which these communication elements, gestures, actions, silences, and verbal formulations, are being used to represent. In mathematics, calculations can be made without the presence of the objects about which calculation is necessary, but in psycho-analytic practice it is essential for the psycho-analyst to be able to demonstrate as he formulates. This is not possible the moment the conditions for psycho-analysis, in the narrow technical sense, do not exist. Poetic and religious expressions have made possible a degree of 'public-ation' in that formulations exist which have achieved durability and extensibility. To say the same thing differently, the carrying power of the statement has been extended in time and in space.
