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When we talk about the process of distancing oneself from one's thoughts, reflecting better to gain perspectives, does this imply something about the knower? Are we not in some way talking about the forming of Self? (Bruner, 1986, p. 129)
The construction and subsequent presentation of a therapeutic transaction-a case summary-represents one of the profession's best efforts to stake a small claim for knowing: to lift, by rendering articulate, the prementational, affective experience to the realm of cognitive reflection, to transform, by the interposition of words, what the body does into what the mind knows.
Analytic theory is founded upon the conviction that meaning is discoverable or, more accurately, recoverable, from its initial residence in the inarticulate logic of the unconscious. The primary vehicle in effecting the psychic migration from timeless silence to personal chronology consists in the transformative capacity of language to construct a “mentational space” between the act and the