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Freud and his aphasia book
Sigmund Freud's neglected 1891 monograph On Aphasia, excluded from the Freud Standard Edition as not sufficiently psychological, is crucial to an understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis. Valerie D. Greenberg explains how Freud's prescient study represents its time and reaches out to ours, articulating late nineteenth-century disciplinary ferment and anticipating twentieth-century neurological discovery. Greenberg creates a meeting ground for two strains of inquiry. One has to do with Freud's early neurological writings and his career as a research scientist; the other with the origins of psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth-century intellectual culture, particularly in theories of language. Aphasia studies encompass inquiry into language, brain, and consciousness, and, ultimately, the entire question of mind-body relations. The study of language disorders that result from...
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