ABSTRACT
Freud believed, in line with the positivist training he received in his studies, that by using words in order to recover memories it was possible to gain access to the unconscious and thereby resolve psychic conflicts. Freud would probably be struck by the changes that have occurred, in the various psychoanalytic models and the way in which his original hypotheses are used. The P-I dynamics in the secondary reticula, originally regulated by the mother, undergoes numerous transformations, creating more flexible identificatory functions better able to adapt to relations with other human objects. The interhemispheric dynamics seems to be the most plausible structural support for the self-reflexive function of language. The increasing abundance of the fundamental nodes also explains the combinatorial, semiotic and categorical properties universally present in languages. Linguistic maturation, indeed, enables an ever-greater participation, at a neocortical level, of the association nodes of the reticulum, which establish its more abstract properties.
