What is the epistemological process, and for that matter the ontological significance, of psychoanalytic treatment and “cure”?

Freud's psychology, as methodology and technique, makes a unique and highly unorthodox claim to the status of science in that its procedure is supposed to be both mutative and truthful—inasmuch as the knowledge that emerges is known through the necessary transformative implications it has for its subject. The principal purpose of these philosophically inclined notes, which are based upon textual interpretation of Freud's writings on treatment and on the unconscious, as well as on selected contributions of his successors, is to identify certain serious theoretical problems in the prevailing models for understanding psychic change in psychoanalysis. A contingent purpose is to open the way for a radical reconceptualization of the process, grounded upon dialectical notions of representational deconstruction