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# Firstly, they usually involve a reference to the [[category ]] of intentionality, which is conceived of as coterminuous with [[consciousness]].)# Secondly, they [[represent ]] [[communication]] as a simple [[process ]] in which a [[message]] is sent by one person (the addresser) to [[another ]] (the addressee).<ref>[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. (1960) "Linguistics and poetics," in ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Poetry ]] of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The [[Hague]]: Mouton, 1981, p.21</ref>

However, both these features are put into question by the specific [[experience ]] of [[communication]] in [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]].

# Firstly, [[speech]] is revealed to possess an [[intentionality]] that goes beyond [[conscious]] [[purpose]].# Secondly, the [[speaker]]'s [[message]] is seen to be not merely directed at another but also at himself.:<blockquote>"In [[human]] [[speech]] the sender is always a receiver at the same [[time]]."<ref>{{S3}} p.24</ref></blockquote>

Putting these two points together, it can be said that the part of the speaker's [[message]] which is addressed to himself is the [[unconscious]] [[intention]] behind the [[message]].   When [[speaking ]] to the [[analyst]], the [[analysand]] is also addressing a [[message]] to himself, but is not aware of this.

The task of the [[analyst]] is to enable the [[analysand]] to hear the [[message]] he is [[unconscious]]ly addressing to himself by [[interpretation|interpreting]] the [[analysand]]'s [[words]], the [[analyst]] permits the [[analysand]]'s [[message]] to [[return ]] to him in its [[true]], [[unconscious]] [[dimension]].

Hence [[Lacan]] defines [[communication| analytic communication]] as the [[act]] whereby "the sender receives his own message from the receiver in an inverted [[form]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.41</ref>