In this significant contribution the verbal, paraverbal, and nonverbal communications of a patient are correlated and then related to the countertransference fantasy. The author considers the type, style, and wording of the patient's fantasy, as well as its reflection in the analyst at the moment of his interpretation. Lopez demonstrates how he approaches the patient's characterological difficulties by making a comprehensive interpretation, including symptomatology, transference material, infantile neurotic remnants, and the present-day situation, adding to them his own countertransference 'creations'. He feels that in the interpretation, the analyst should attempt to fulfil 'a true and new psycholinguistic combination'.