ABSTRACT
The Grid is an instrument for the use of practising psycho-analysts. It is not intended that it should be used during the working session. The two axes should thus together indicate a category implying a comprehensive range of information about the statement. It has been considered useful to include two rows for β- and α- elements neither of which are real or observable. The next row, C, is intended for categories of thought which are often expressible in terms of sensuous, usually visual, images such as those appearing in dreams, myths, narratives, hallucinations. This category will require extension as psychoanalytic experience accumulates; even it deserves a 'grid' of its own to expand it suitably for psychoanalytic use. The psychoanalyst is aware of Freud's principle that matters which are observed must be called by their proper names. If he witnesses certain facts he is under an obligation to state his evidence; equally, he must not report what he does not see.
