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In this concise review of the psychoanalytic literature on the subject of words and language, words are described as a substitute for body activities. They are associated with secondary process thinking and come from the 'hunger call' of the infant and the 'sexual call' of the adult, as Darwin suggested. They are
magical, ambiguous, and antithetical. Freud's interest in speech and language is discussed.