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De Saussure(1911)inaugurated the structural analysis of language at about the same time Freud began his seminal thinking about the structure of the mind. Nonetheless, common roots in a common Zeitgeist has not led to an overlap of the fields of linguistics and psychoanalysis. Yet each discipline has a knowledge base that should be explored with respect to opening our minds to new findings in each field on the basis of cross-disciplinary investigation.