The interdisciplinary investigation of the frontier between linguistics and psychoanalysis is concerned with some very challenging problems, and its few researchers, among whom Edelson is one of the foremost, deserve recognition and careful attention. In 1972, Edelson published a long article, “Language and Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams Revisited,” which he considers as “de facto the first chapter” of his recent study, Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (1975). We collaborated in an earlier examination of Edelson's work (Mahony and Singh, 1975) and, thinking of our present consideration as a continued and enriching dialogue with him, we shall treat a number of vital issues, including the notion of linguistic competence,