Whatever psychoanalysts understand about the unconscious meaning of symptoms, they need to share with their patients. This process is called interpreting and it hopefully leads to insight. Several controversies are reviewed here: are there rules for good interpretations of phenomena as subjective as dreams; is it possible to use interpretative method and be a natural scientist; can psychoanalytic interpretations be applied to what goes on outside the consulting room - on culture, arts, politics.
Part of a lecture by Professor Aleksandar Dimitrijevic at Mittelweg 50 in Berlin 23 of February 2019 for Berlin Psychoanalytic.
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