ABSTRACT
This conclusion chapter explores Freud's self-assigned task of understanding the formation of symptoms and the patient's pathology was taken over by the power of the spoken word. The book discusses the Freud's first conception of words in On Aphasia makes it clear that he is not talking about words as heard or pronounced sounds. A word acquires its meaning when its sound finds an internal mental representation whose visual component aptly links to it. This understanding of the words people exchange with each other offers the bedrock that supports Freud's entire psychoanalytic theory and makes possible a technique capable of accessing unconscious processes. In the book, Freud uses the word scene throughout his works to refer to the private emergence of recollections of particular experiential or fantasized moments which he hoped would provide pointers and clues to the dynamically repressed material. Hence, the chapter presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
