Book, Freud On the Conception of Aphasia a Critical Study[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Perhaps it is news to many that this first book written and published by Freud remained unpublished until today in Brazil. The frequent justification for its exclusion from the so-called complete works of Freud would be its alleged more neurological than psychoanalytic content. However, even though it was written before the coining of the term Psychoanalysis, we know today that On the conception of aphasia: A critical study is a fundamental work for understanding later writings. Especially if we think about how much the fundamental relationship between the psyche and language guides Freudian thought, we see here the itinerary of someone who abandons the hegemonic conceptions of localizationism defended by his masters, becoming the co-founder of a dynamic conception of both the psyche and of language in its functions and dysfunctions. A psychoanalyst, who deals daily with patients' speech, who practices the method that was dubbed by a patient as talking cure, cannot be indifferent to the fact that the first important text by the creator of psychoanalysis , dated 1891, therefore prior to his theory of the psychic apparatus, literally proposes a language apparatus. The work is part of the collection Obras Incompletas de Sigmund Freud, which aims not only to offer a new translation, direct from German and attentive to usage concepts by the Brazilian psychoanalytic community, but offer a new way of organizing and treating texts. An invitation for the reader to be wary of the appeasing nature that the adjective “complete” entails.