In this chapter, we summarize our analytic findings in a single case: a patient with damage to a specific part of the brain. Our aim in this chapter is to provide the reader with an initial orientation to the sort of data that is generated by analytic work with neurological patients. Our observations on this patient then form the starting point for comparisons with other cases, with damage in other parts of the brain, which we present in the subsequent chapters.1

The most striking feature of this patient's case, as the reader will see, is his relative normality. Despite the fact that he suffered a significant neurocognitive impairment—namely, loss of the capacity to express himself in language (and a physical loss, too, in the form of right-sided paralysis)—he did not undergo any dramatic