ABSTRACT
For Jean-Claude Rolland, the Freudian description is a metaphor of the “obscure relations that psychic substance has with its language surface”. For him, the Freudian description is a metaphor of the “obscure relations that psychic substance has with its language surface”. The ego would be destroyed by the repeated assaults of the unconscious if it were not helped in its task by the action of language. The latter, “like a shell”, ensures a protective function against stimuli. Rolland proposes a new method of investigation. In the analysand's discourse, the analyst, by virtue of his regressive and “visionary” listening, discerns repetitions that constitute “analogies between themselves”. They attest to the presence of the return of the repressed. These analogies are at the origin of his forthcoming interpretation: this is how “analogical interpretation” arises.
