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Thus the only way for the [[analyst]] to gain any purchase on the [[imaginary]] is by transforming the [[images]] into [[word]]s, just as [[Freud]] treats the [[dream]] as a rebus:
<blockquote>The imaginary is decipherable only if it is rendered into [[symbol]]s.<ref>{{L}} 1956b: 269</ref></blockquote>
This use of the [[symbolic]] is the only way for the [[treatment|analytic process]] "to cross the plane of identification."<ref>{{S11}} p. 273</ref>
