The infantile: Which meaning?

ABSTRACT

The “in-fans”, who cannot speak, needs a narrator, especially a psychoanalyst in the transference in order to be able to hear again the “silent” language that is expressed in the time of the “Jetztzeit”. Through a reflection on Freud's work on aphasias and his exchange of letters with Fliess, it is possible to identify important previews which constitute a sort of pre-semiotics, as well as a theory on memory. In addition, history, sociology, semiotics and the neurosciences are all necessary interlocutors for developing the issue of The Infantile in psychoanalysis.

KEYWORDS:

• Infantile
• transference
• Freud

Notes

1 Peter Handke, from Lied Vom Kindsein in the film Der Himmel uber Berlin. Wim Wenders, 1987.

2 For reference see the books by Jean-Claude Rolland (2006); Kahn (2004).