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What Freud referred to as “a matter for later enquiry” (1937d, p. 266), or according to H. Doolittle as “the basis for a very weighty philosophy” (1956, p. 49), can with hindsight be seen as a premonition of constructivism already inherent in psychoanalysis. Loch greatly contributed to this further research, as Eickhoff (1996) points out, in proving how “what appears to be an incomplete substitute should nevertheless produce a complete result” (Freud, 1937d, p. 265) “by extending Freud's understanding of construction, which remained true to a correspondence theory of truth, and, among other things, by giving up the distinction made between reconstruction and construction” (Eickhoff, 1996, p. 68). Loch emphasizes: “Phantasies and memories do not represent the discovery of a truth of historical character but are rather attempts to create a meaning in order for life to continue” (Loch, 1976, p. 885). He explains why in the collapse of all values it is only the mind (inner reality) that remains, synonymous with meaning: that is, firstly, as the result of the third aetiology, i.e. the Nachträglichkeit, the après-coup character of the formation of the neurosis (a memory trace is charged after the event and only becomes pathogenetic in this process); secondly, as a result of re-transcription at least three or more times (Freud, 1896, 06.12.1896), i.e. transcription into three different kinds of sign; thirdly, because the attribution of meaning to memories necessarily depends on context; and, fourthly, because language does not produce an exact 1:1 copy of experience. Alongside these I should like to draw attention to further factors that show how “making out” (Freud, 1937d, SE 23, p. 259), interpreting and constructing were already synonyms for Freud and how he found construction “by far the more appropriate description” (Freud, 1937d, p. 261). This means that psychoanalysis as the process of interpretation in the relation between analyst an