In Entwurf einer Psychologie Freud describes three primary life experiences in which a sound could play a role in the building of meanings. This triple presentation agrees with the tripartite structure of the language exposed in Zur Auffassung der Aphasien; it allows an extension of the proceeding of building word meanings partly presented in that first text; and, later, it will be upheld in the tripartition of the proceedings of building the meaning in the dreaming work. Thus, we may reduce the debate about the limits of language in psychoanalytic theory to punctual erasures in the multiplicity of those meaning proceedings and finally postulate that these erasures constitute a method pertaining to the very subject of the psychoanalytic investigation.
Psychoanalysis; language; meaning; method