The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis

Abstract

‘In particular, it should not be forgotten that the division into embryology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, sociology and clinical medicine does not exist in nature and there is only one discipline: a neurobiology to which observation obliges us to add the epithet human when it concerns us.’ The theme was suggested to the author as the basis of the customary theoretical report for the annual meeting of the society, which, at that time, represented psychoanalysis in France. For eighteen years, this society had pursued what had become a venerable tradition under the title ‘Congrès des Psychanalystes de langue française’, then, for two years this congress had been extended to psychoanalysts speaking any of the Romance languages. It is strange that an analyst, for whom this sort of person is one of the first encounters in his experience, should still take introspection into account in psychoanalysis.

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