ABSTRACT
Interpretation in Lacanian psychoanalysis follows from the general conceptions so far expounded and from the methods which direct the cure itself. The analyst should give a 'fortunate scansion', as Lacan puts it, to the patient's discourse, locating the capital elements in the flow of the discourse. The analytic interpretation will then be based upon free association around the part-elements of the formations of the unconscious. In short, the process of interpretation and of the cure is the transition from the non-symbolized imaginary to a symbolized imaginary which is restored to its symbolic dimension. And the play of interpretation, or, to be more accurate, its methods are based upon the fact that 'the unconscious is structured like a language, that a material operates in it according to certain laws, which are the same laws as those discovered in the study of actual languages'.
