ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis, as both a theory and a practice, is intertwined with language. At a bare minimum, the pragmatics of conducting analysis require the presence of two people who are able to exchange ideas through speech. Theoretically, Freud took language beyond a practical necessity: his creation of a metapsychology to accompany his psychoanalytic practice saw him developing intricate and sophisticated views of the role of language in psychic functioning, presenting it as the archetypal vehicle of representation for the conscious, reality-oriented thinking (see Freud 1961: 20).
