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Oppenheimer utilizes some concepts from analytic philosophy to discuss the problems of any theory of interpretation. Every theory of interpretation must also imply a theory of truth. Truth cannot be separated from its mode of discovery in language. Freud wanted to found psychoanalysis on the model of an empirical science, while formulating a theory of desire that Ricoeur called hermeneutic. These two models correspond to two types of truth, that of science and that of the hermeneutic model founded on the meaning taken by desire. The criterion of interpretation in the latter is that of intelligibility and coherence within the personal re-experience in the transference. Within the framework of these two models, interpretation is on the one hand a translation, on the other a production. In spite of the apparent contradiction in the two models, their coexistence is necessary and the oscillation between them is fruitful. These two modes in interpretation parallel the interest in analytic philosophy concerning an exact, formal language on the one hand, and the description of ordinary speech on the other. A comparison of the approach of psychoanalysis and that of philosophy is helpful, especially in permitting us to understand an interpretation as a "speech act," in Austin's and Searle's sense.