ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins with re-reading of Sigmund Freud's monograph On Aphasia with some preliminary remarks and questions concerning the so-called 'rehabilitation' of aphasia. He then argues that Freud's monograph is invaluable to the solution of the riddle of Freud's epistemological transition from neurology and neuro-anatomy to psychiatry and psychology, and eventually to psychoanalysis. In the period from 1886 till 1893, during Freud's search for a workable explanation of hysterical symptoms, and through his own confrontation with the clinic of 'excessively intense ideas', Freud succeeded in his epistemological translation of Charcot's work. Freud's early subjective linguistics, his science or language inhabited by the subject' —in short, the psychoanalytic theory of language—may, at least in some aspects, find approval from modern neurology. The author believes that a reorganisation of the pre-analytic past of psychoanalysis can provide the impetus for the 'translation' of the so-called 'rehabilitation' of aphasics into a clinic of aphasia.
