The relation between language and internal psychic reality, with special emphasis on the linguistic productions of schizophrenics, is explored. The author reviews Paul Ricoeur's conceptions of psychoanalysis as a science and his ideas on the origin, structure, and function of psychic facts. He then compares them to Sullivan's notions of language and meaning. Both Ricoeur and Sullivan, Glass feels, consider language as constituting "critical evidence; it is the basis for data which allows the observer to encircle the self with explanation." Meaning invariably can be derived from utterance, which in turn contains significant psychic fact. Such facts, which according to Ricoeur symbolize unconscious structure, can be retrieved and identified through a "therapeutic transference." They represent internal reality and are present in the narrative of the subject's experience. Glass applies his ideas about meaning to the language of the schizophrenic and concludes that "the schizophrenic creates the emotional terms of