Donnet attempts to articulate the much discussed opposition between construction and interpretation as set up by Freud in his article, "Constructions in Analysis." Freud distinguished interpretation and construction only by the amplitude of the psychic material that they sum up. Interpretation concerns a limited element which has been presented in the session; construction concerns a fragment, or an aspect of forgotten history, and is "proposed" to the patient to fill in lacunae of her or his past. After a very interesting and insightful set of comparisons and contrasts between the two modes of analytic intervention, Donnet raises the question of why Freud seems to have accorded preeminence to construction. Donnet's thesis is that there is a correlation between Freud's placing interpretation on the second level and