ABSTRACT
The narrative of the symbolic father has organized culture for all of human history. In a sense, the Dead Father is in the word.
The foundation of psychoanalysis itself is deeply rooted in language. The generative importance of Freud’s neuropsychoanalytic1 work, especially his 1891 study On Aphasia, has been elaborated by Forrester (1980), Greenberg (1997) and Rizzuto (2002) among others. On the other hand, the influence of the German language and Freud’s German literary heritage on his work have been richly discussed by scholars such as Anzieu (1986), Grubrich-Simitis (1986) and Ticho (1986). However, Anzieu (1986, p. 222) argues that Freud could never have founded psychoanalysis without the “polymorphously linguistic” milieu he cultivated for himself (learning English, romance and classical languages) which allowed him to transcend certain cultural limits in various ways.
