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Interpretation as a tool in the report of investigative procedures is distinguished from interpretation functioning in a therapeutic situation. This distinction is relevant to the regularity with which case reports reiterate similar conceptual content when the individual therapeutic procedures are rich in difference. Interpretation may be approached from a triple viewpoint: interpretations as statements of general explanatory concepts; as statements about the results of psychological investigation of a given person; as used in the individual therapeutic analysis. Comments which are for the most part directed to the third aspect and only differentially to the others, cover consideration of the process as it arises in the analyst, perceptiveness of clues, not confined to the primary process and the nature of the interaction between patient and analyst in a wide sense. 'Preparatory work' resulting in the analysis of defensive structures is illustrated indicating the effective stimulation of linkages between various strata of the patient's mind awakening the flow of primary process connexions. The impact of the analyst's selection of words is specially considered as it effects the regrouping of the patient's material. There is a complementary process being achieved for the patient by effective preparatory work which enables him to offer meaningful clues to the analyst often also condensed in specially selected words.
Patients who make use of analytic jargon in the session make use of the cognitive function devoid of its personal expressive counterpart. The analyst's use of jargon in the session reveals a shift of the cognitive function from the patient's individual problem to more general phenomena. While analyzing we work with these concepts as a framework, but in interpretation we retranslate them into the patient's personal experience. Every analysis can and perhaps ought to be conducted as though the theory were never completely taken for granted.