On Aphasia
On Aphasia is a work on aphasia by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The monograph was Freud's first book, published in 1891. In the treatise, Freud challenges the main authorities of the time by asserting that their manner of understanding aphasias was no longer tenable.[1] At the turn of the century, neuroscientists had attempted to localize psychological processes in discrete cortical regions—a position which Freud rejected because neuroscience had very little to offer dynamic psychology on the topic.[2]
In On Aphasia, Freud put forth his earliest thoughts on psychology. Up until that time, Freud had been preoccupied with neurophysiology. The work antedates his writings on psychoanalytic thought.[3] Freud exposed the major fallacy purported by the classical German school of psychology (including writers such as Meynert, Wernicke, Lichtheim) which had held a "localizationist" stance, namely conflating psychological and physiological concepts, specifically on the subject of aphasias.[4]
Because Freud had focused on speech and language loss in this early work, he had a nuanced conception of speech, even speculating on language acquisition. Freud continued to write on the subject, though somewhat briefly, in his work The Unconscious, published in 1915, in Appendix C as Words and Things.[5]
However, Freud and other psychoanalysts who conceived of language acquisition as an aspect of pure brain activity typically overlook the interpersonal, social, and systemic elements of language acquisition and word meaning.[6]
See also
- Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud bibliography
References
- ^ Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. "Freud's speech apparatus and spontaneous speech." The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1993).
- ^ Schore, Allan N. "A century after Freud's project: Is a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neurobiology at hand?." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 45, no. 3 (1997): 807-840.
- ^ Shapiro, Theodore. "Interpretation and naming." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 18, no. 2 (1970): 399-421.
- ^ Solms, Mark. "Freud, Luria and the clinical method." Psychoanalysis and History 2, no. 1 (2000): 76-109.
- ^ Litowitz, Bonnie E. "Why this question? Commentary on Vivona." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 60, no. 2 (2012): 267-274.
- ^ Wilson, Arnold, and Lissa Weinstein. "Language, thought, and interiorization: a Vygotskian and psychoanalytic perspective." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 26, no. 1 (1990): 24-40.
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- On Aphasia (1891)
- Studies on Hysteria (1895)
- The Interpretation of Dreams (including On Dreams) (1899)
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
- Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905)
- Totem and Taboo (1913)
- Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1916–17)
- The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1917)
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
- The Ego and the Id (1923)
- The Question of Lay Analysis (1926)
- The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
- Moses and Monotheism (1939)
- "The Aetiology of Hysteria" (1896)
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
- Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907)
- Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908)
- Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood (1910)
- On Narcissism (1914)
- The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1914)
- Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work (1915)
- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1916)
- Mourning and Melancholia (1918)
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
- Medusa's Head (1922)
- Dostoevsky and Parricide (1928)
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- Mahler on the Couch (2010 film)
- A Dangerous Method (2011 film)
- Freud (2020 TV series)
- Freud's Last Session (2023 film)
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