Key words: interpretation, psychoanalytic tecnique, affective meaning
According to psychoanalysis, interpretation does not entail looking for hidden intents, even less it is a symbolic translation (Bernfeld 1932); it consists of two actions: a) recognizing a meaningful configuration, based on emotions and motives (affective symbolization) and b) reorganizing that meaning, thus reaching a different configuration of meaning (a new affective symbolization). Such outlook is based on an emotional theory of the mind and consciousness of the Id, or consciousness of the unconscious (Solmes 2018). Affective re-symbolization is the operation through which interpretations become transformative or mutative (Strachey 1934), reaching through to decision making processes while eluding the need to re-enact dysfunctional automatisms in transference.