ABSTRACT

The language of the symptom, although already a form of communication, is autistic. It mumbles to itself secretly, hoping to be overheard; its equivalent meaning conveyed in words is social. This process of communication is the medium of all other therapeutic agencies. It drives the therapeutic process forward  .  .  .  (in) a move  from symptom  to problem,  from dream  to  the conflict  underlying the dream . . .