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The spoken word and the written word represent the two great traditions and areas through which the intergenerational handing down of the psychoanalytic discipline occurs. The article addresses the issue of the transmission of psychoanalysis, comparing these two contrasting modalities which correspond to psychic and relational registers so deeply different from each other. The paper concludes with some reflections dedicated to that which should be the role and the function of a psychoanalytic journal as regards both the training and the transmission of the discipline of psychoanalysis today.
KEY WORDS: Function of writing, oral tradition, psychoanalytic journal, transmission of psychoanalysis, writing.