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There is a value, when listening to the associations, in making a mental distinction between the meaning of the associations and their interpretation. The patient says, “I went on Hampstead Heath yesterday and did some bird-watching”.
Taking the meaning first:
Does he mean he was scrutinizing their sex life?
Or is it an attempt to describe getting into the hands of the police by behaving in a suspicious way?
Or does he mean he has at last taken some exercise?
And so on with other speculations. Then, having decided that point, what is the interpretation?
In conjunction with the rest of the analysis together with current transference, the preceding associations and the meaning as decided above, you finally produce the interpretation.