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I shall not be superficial if I indicate right away that on the cover of this book is a reproduction of Brueghel's Tower of Babel, which shows an architectural structure that stands not only incomplete, but also skewed. The reproduction is graphically appropriate for the adventurousness of the collected volume whose unwieldiness is foreshadowed in its translated title: Languages: the Second Psychoanalytic Meetings of Aix-en-Provence (1983)—Language in Psychoanalysis. But the unwieldy title is also deceptive. As we proceed to read through the collection unfortunately marred by numerous typographical errors, we realize