INTERPRETATION AS COMPARISON

Analytic subjectivity may not be the problem it seems. What is crucial for patients is not that analysts possess the objective truth, but th at patients see a truth for themselves. How they accomplish this may d epend on the analyst showing them a view of themselves that differs fr om their own and can be compared to if. Each aspect of experience is d efined by its relation to another reference point. I propose that the interpretive process is a medium for knowing one's mind in relation to that of another This has implications for issues of analytic authorit y and autonomy.