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The perception and transmission of covert meanings not really evident to each of the two people in a dyadic psychoanalytic situation presents a problem involving the conveying of meaning from one intrapsychic system to another. In short, "metaphor" constitutes the analyst's principal way of catching the drift of the patient's unconscious with his or her own unconscious. The psychoanalytic "work ego" receives and validates communications through synesthetic correspondences.