ABSTRACT
The title of this book, in which a group of eminent psychoanalysts express their friendship to Jacqueline Amati Mehler and at the same time pay tribute to her contributions to psychoanalysis, clearly indicates its subject matter. From different points of view and using different theoretic formulations, its chapters explore a fascinating and problematic area of psychoanalytic knowledge – the relationships between symbolization and serious pathologies – including the role that speech and the different languages play in psychoanalysis, the ‘talking cure’ par excellence, and how they are used in the cure. All these themes have been the object of Jacqueline Amati Mehler’s attention and of her papers during the many years of work that she has dedicated to our discipline.
