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The author will demonstrate how interpretations have moved from constructing history and early traumas, typically associated with early psychoanalysis, to here and now interventions in the present, commonly connected with intersubjective analysis. This transcendence in technique has resulted in a gradual shift of focus from lifting repressed unconscious material there and then to preconscious interventions in the ongoing interaction between analyst and analysand. Methods of interventions such as reconstructions, constructions and interpretations will be accounted for in light of a brief historical review, beginning with Freud followed by an exposition of intersubjective analysis. Cognitive research and scientific findings from the work with traumatised patients will additionally enrich some of the thoughts presented in this article. While transference analysis and here and now interpretations continue to be an essential part of psychoanalytic practice, other methods of intervention are called for in order to understand the unconscious. Short clinical illustrations will additionally provide material to the discussion.