Abstract

WEISSMANN, Lisette. Psychoanalysis in a foreign language?. J. psicanal. [online]. 2021, vol.54, n.101, pp. 123-140. ISSN 0103-5835.

This article discusses the language chosen for analysis. Beginning from the obstacles in psychoanalysis in the mother tongue of an analysand, analizing clinically and theoretically, the choice of a foreign language as a powerful way to express and deepen the peoples' emotional life. The objective of this paper is to examine cases of polylingual, bilingual and those who only speak their mother tongue, in which language is used as a means of expression of psychic life in psychoanalysis. Clinical cases are used to discuss subjects as: the usage of the mother tongue and a foreign language for analysis, the misunderstandings in intercultural couples, and migrants in the process of mourning the abandoned country as well as coping with the insecurities that arise from the need of learning a new language in the host country.

Keywords : mother tongue; foreign language; intercultural couples; misunderstandings; migration.

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