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In a postmodern age, the significance of psychoanalysis may rest in it's capacity to signify nothing. Perhaps one of the more unsettling intellectual developments of recent decades has been the sustained theoretical assault upon the idea of meaning as it has been given particular voice by decon-structive theory and its adherents in the field of literary criticism. Meaning, as a fundamental construct suggesting an actual and discoverable significance that inheres in actions, in lives, in the very cosmos, is dismantled. Meaning is reduced to its component verbal elements and found to say nothing. It has been deconstructed, reduced to a series of words which have lost their fixed relationship to actual things in the actual world-Authors are merely starting points in their own texts, their affirmed narrative intentions subject to other confirmed readings. Deconstructive theory, as it asserts the endless malleability of textual intent, and the postmodern ethic, as it is disinclined to assign any meaning to meaning, have recalled the long-standing cultural concession to transcendence. And just as legitimate textual references have been subject to postmodern rewrites-in a