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[[Freud]] had already spoken of "''symptoms joining in the conversation''" as early as 1895. (A patient might have sudden pains at precise moments in her [[speech]]. The pain would indicate that something had been left unsaid, showing how physical sensations themselves could be [[linguistic]], sending a [[message]] to be picked up by the [[analyst]].)
=====EditSymptoms and Speech=====(Freud showed how symptoms and actions could literally be words trapped in the body. A woman who wishes to have a child jumps from an embankment, the word she uses for "jump" (''niederkommen'') being identical with the word meaning "be delivered of a child". A man's attraction to women with a "shine" on the nose could be traced to the verbal equivalence between the word for "shine" in German (''Glanz'') and the English word "glance".)
A whole [[neurosis]] could be organized by words and the relation between them. The case of the [[Rat Man]] discussed by [[Freud]] shows how a massive network of [[symptom]]s, compulsions and actions depended on the links between the words ''Spielratte'' (gambler), ''heiraten'' (to marry) and ''raten'' (instalments). ''Words became the very stuff of symptoms, the fabric of the life and torment of human beings''.
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