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1 This paper is the first fruit of a research project I have been conducting for some years and which is still going on. The research in question concerns the ways in which mental and affective events are produced during analysis and find means of being signified.
Starting out from J. Lacan's hypotheses, and in particular the theory advanced in Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage (1953), which have lead to the function of the word being considered fundamental to the analytic experience, certain authors have tried to approach Freudian metapsychology through various linguistic models(1).
As far as my own research is concerned, I think it is useful to apply to the analytic field a conception of linguistic uses according