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But the thesis “the unconscious interprets” also aims to make the analyst revert to a certain discretion as regards the appreciation of the efficacy of his action. Freud laid down foundations that have perhaps been slightly forgotten today. If the unconscious interprets (interweaving jouissance and sense in its formations), it also decides the outcome of any intervention of the analyst. It is the unconscious that indicates whether or not the analyst was able to touch the cause of desire. Freud noted this in particular in relation to dreams: it matters little whether they lie or tell the truth, whether the analysand lies, whether he accepts or refuses the analyst’s intervention. The result of an interpretation can only be assessed by the production of new material: another formation of the unconscious, the production of a symptom (even a negative therapeutic reaction)9 or a simple negation (“I hadn’t thought about it”). The question is not to know which of the two, the analyst or the analysand, is right, as “there is no con- frontation at this level. When there is a confrontation, it is because we are on the imaginary axis.” So what crowns the success of an intervention is a new manifestation of the drive that calls for a new lifting of repression.