It seems clear that by grounding a clinical report in an ever-expanding Index of Clinical Happenings, we can make more necessary and natural any given interpretation. By showing a communality across patients, we can dissolve the mystique often associated with a penetrating interpretation and by normalizing it, make it more persuasive. At the same moment, we will be demonstrating that the hermeneutic approach is systematic, not nihilistic, can be just as lawful as a Euclid proof, and stands at the center of any successful psychoanalysis.