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talking cure
An expression coined by 'Fraulein Anna O ' a patient of Freud 's early associate Joseph Breuer , to describe her treatment under hyponosis . It is widely used as a synonym for psychoanalysis as it indicates that it ahs only one medium: the speech that conveys the patient's free associations .
Language and the unconscious
Unconscious and formations Signifier and signification Metaphor and metonymy Speech and enunciation Interpretation and construction Writing and formalization
Psychoanalytic concepts
Registers and knotting Subject and Otherness Desire, lack, and object Drive and jouissance Language and the unconscious Sexuation and law Formation and identification Defense and psychic mechanisms Time, repetition, and trauma Clinical structures and symptoms Analytic technique and frame Affect and anxiety Discourses and social bond Formalization and topology Ethics and the act