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Though rewarding, it is an enterprise of no mean commitment to introduce a work by Gori as he leads us on a meticulous, detailed revisitation of Freud's work, on which he is an absolute authority. We must therefore be grateful to him for the chance he offers us, every time we read any of his publications, to be reconciled with Freud once more, in a manner which is neither ritualistic nor superficial and which perhaps enables us to discover how much escaped our attention in previous readings. Likewise, in the case of “Parola e interpretazione in psicoanalisi”, we get the impression of being brought into contact with Freud's thinking and we can make out aspects that previously, perhaps, we had not considered. The volume basically sets itself two objectives. The first describes and introduces the Freudian linguistic theory, or the theory of the development and formation of speech according to Freud, which is held by Gori to be a complete linguistic theory, worthy of comparison with other linguistic theories, and yet, strangely enough, it has been neglected by analysts or not even recognized as such. We are led to make this discovery by going through Freud's work, starting with his writings on aphasia. I shall limit myself here to the indication of what Gori maintains are the nodal points and fundamental stages of speech formation. In the first place, he shows how the Freudian theory of speech formation stems from a clinical study of aphasia and that Freud formulated his theory on the basis of the reversal of functional regression which is what we see to be responsible for aphasia.
In the second place, the hypothesis is formulated that the development of words, and consequently of speech,