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[[Language ]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], The<i>Vocabulaire de la [[psychanalyse]]</i> (<i>The Language of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i>) is neither a [[dictionary ]] nor an encyclopedia, but an inventory of the major [[concepts ]] of psychoanalysis. Cursory readers might confine themselves to the brief definitions that precede the historical discussions of concepts. However, the most important [[work ]] presented in this book is its analysis of the tools of [[psychoanalytic ]] [[thinking]]: a methodical and thoroughgoing investigation ever ready to track down contradictions. Basing this book almost exclusively on the work of...

[[Language and Disturbances of Language]]Language is arguably omnipresent in psychoanalysis, if for no [[other ]] [[reason ]] than that it is the essential tool of [[analytic ]] [[treatment]].

Apart from [[Freud]]'s early work On [[Aphasia ]] (1891b), four passages in his writings may conveniently serve as vantage points from which to consider his approach to language. These are the beginning of chapter 6 of The [[Interpretation ]] of [[Dreams ]] (1900a), chapter 5 and chapter 8 of The [[Psychopathology ]] of Everyday [[Life ]] (1901b), and the last paragraph of "The [[Unconscious]]" (1915e). These passages...