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Three forms of meaning and their psychoanalytic significance
1Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, USA.
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The existence of three distinct forms of meaning--unearthed, reshaped, and improvised--is claimed to be a part of every analysis. These forms are defined and distinguished from one another. Each is presented as conforming to a certain set to psychological needs in the patient and so as having no overall or general significance as to its propriety vis-à-vis the others. As a group these meanings necessarily alter the concept of neutrality, rendering it relative to the individual patient.