Here are some excerpts from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that help explain the inner meaning of this chapter:

AC 5191. In the internal sense of this chapter the subject treated of is the second state of the celestial of the spiritual, which is "Joseph," in its elevation above what is of the natural or external man, and so above all the memory-knowledges therein, which are "Egypt."

AC 5192. "Pharaoh" is the natural in general, which was now at rest, and had left all things to the celestial of the spiritual which is "Joseph." The "seven years of abundance of produce in the land of Egypt" are the memory-knowledges to which good from the celestial of the spiritual can be applied; the "seven years of famine" are the following states, when there is nothing good in the memory-knowledges except what is from the Divine celestial of the spiritual which is from the Lord‘s Divine Human. These subjects are treated of in detail in what follows.

5286. 'And now let Pharaoh see' means provision to be made by the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing' as making provision; for 'seeing' here implies an action, one that Pharaoh is to take. But when 'seeing' does not imply the taking of an action, it means understanding and discerning, as shown in 2150, 2325, 2807, 3764, 3863, 4403-4421, 4567, 4723, 5114. The situation so far as provision made by the natural is concerned is this: A person's natural - that is, his natural mind which is beneath his rational mind - cannot by itself see to any provision whatever that has to be made. It seems to do so by itself, but any provision it does make is seen to by what is interior. This sees within the exterior what provision needs to be made, almost as a person sees himself in a mirror in which his image seems to exist. This particular matter is presented in the internal sense by Joseph speaking in the way he does to Pharaoh - 'Joseph' representing the celestial of the spiritual, which is what is interior, and 'Pharaoh' the natural, which is what is exterior - and by its seeming to Pharaoh that Joseph was the very man with intelligence and wisdom, about whom Joseph was speaking.