title: Three forms of meaning and their psychoanalytic significance.
abstract: The existence of three distinct forms of meaning--unearthed, reshaped, and improvised--is claimed to be a part of every analysis. These forms are defined and distinguished from one another. Each is presented as conforming to a certain set to psychological needs in the patient and so as having no overall or general significance as to its propriety vis-à-vis the others. As a group these meanings necessarily alter the concept of neutrality, rendering it relative to the individual patient.
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology