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title: "The Framework for a Model of Psychoanalytic Inference"
authors:
  - "Virginia Teller"
  - "Hartvig Dahl"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/77"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0077.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "394-399"
track: "INFERENCE and REASONING"
keywords:
---

# The Framework for a Model of Psychoanalytic Inference

Virginia Teller, Hartvig Dahl

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 394-399.

## Abstract

Although theoretical propositions in the field of psychoanalysis ultimately rest on the empirical base of claims by individual psychoanalysts about their intuitive understanding of the utterances of individual analysands, there is as yet no significant scientific theory that accounts either for the analyst's ability to understand or for how he does so. Our claim is that these intuitions can be represented by a two-stage model whose first step consists of classificatory processes and whose second step is essentially that of inductive inferences. We shall present our case by discussing three leve ls of structure to be found in the discourse of a patient in psychoanalysis: the surface TEXT, the classification of this text in Linguistic MAPS and Personal Event FRAMES derived from the maps.