Preface , Introduction , Signs and Spaces , Language, space, and meaning-making , The genesis of meaning-making , A time and a place for playing: transitional phenomena , “An act apart”: meaning-making in theatre and therapy , Analytic interpretation: games and playing , Interpretation and playing: freedom of association , No-space: psychotic meaning-making and regression , The Struggle between Masks , The mask of language , Forced masks and free masks , Child’s play: show and hide , The search for free masks , Signs and Times , Time, fantasy, and imagination , “A dead, living murdered man!” , This year , … Next year … , Sometime: the past and the future perfect , Never , The who you dream yourself