Analysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation, a word so idealized and grand, so laden with fantasy, that the term itself continues to hold a magical sense that defies us to think about it. Called upon to do far too much explanatory work in psychoanalysis, it is accorded a variety of meanings. It is employed for varied uses, often simultaneously, making it hard to know what analysts mean when referring to “interpretation” and what uses they intend for it. Approaches to interpretation may be heuristically separated into those having to do with the content of the unconscious and those attempting to “use” interpretation in a manner still not divorced from content. What it means to attempt to interpret what is by definition uninterpretable is yet another area to be explored. Accordingly, issues of construction, co-construction, and transformation are examined. Every interpretation is at once a concealment, every inscription a negation, every representation a re-presentation of something unrepresentable. Despite this, the concept of interpretation, even if theoretically unsupportable in large measure, retains its clinical utility.

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术语解释的含义是什么？它的用途是什么？


当谈到这个词的解释时，分析师似乎被语言迷住了，这个词是如此理想化和宏大，如此充满幻想，以至于这个词本身仍然拥有一种神奇的感觉，让我们无法思考它。人们要求它在精神分析中做太多的解释工作，它被赋予了多种含义。它有多种用途，而且通常是同时使用，因此很难了解分析师在提到“解释”时的含义以及他们打算将其用于什么用途。解释方法可以启发式地分为与无意识内容有关的方法和试图以不脱离内容的方式“使用”解释的方法。尝试解释从定义上来说不可解释的事物意味着什么，这是另一个有待探索的领域。据此，探讨了共建、共建、转型的问题。每一种解释都同时是一种隐藏，每一种铭文都是一种否定，每一种表征都是对不可表征之物的再现。尽管如此，解释的概念尽管在很大程度上在理论上是不支持的，但仍保留其临床实用性。