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Language is meaningful when, instead of copying the thought, it allows itself to be broken up and then reconstituted by the thought
The inquiry into the mutative elements in interpretations is central to models of psychoanalytical cure. Early in his work (1904) Freud dealt with the problem of therapeutic change, when he attributed cure to the recovery of inaccessible memories and the expression of affects attached to them. The question regarding the effectivity of interpretations received a great deal of attention in psychoanalytical theory (Strachey, 1937; Klein, 1952; Loewald, 1960; Gitelson, 1962; Hammer, 1968; Modell, 1978; Ritvo and Scharfman, 1979; Slipp, 1982; Schafer, 1983; Potter, 1988; Fiscalini, 1988); however, in his late work (1937) Freud had reformulated the question regarding therapeutic change: “In this field the interest of analysts seems to