Freud often spoke of bridge-words (Wortbrücke), and Brousselle wishes to expand on one aspect of these word-bridges frequently encountered in treatment. Sometimes a word has two opposite meanings and permits both the representation of things and word representations. The author supplies some clinical examples and suggests that these word-bridges are often found in problems concerning denial.

The following papers from Volume XL (1976) and from Volume XLI (1977) are from the thirty-sixth Congress of Romance Language Psychoanalysts. The Congress theme was Depression.