Balkányi claims that language develops as a restitution for loss of pleasure in touching and feeling the concrete reality of mother's body. This sensual cathexis of the representation of things is more or less abandoned for the advantage that accrues with the investment in word representations. Yet many linguists refuse to collaborate with analysts, and analysts sometimes think that their work has nothing to do with linguistic science. This sterile state of isolation is compounded by the technical languages of the two disciplines.