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I will focus on one role of actions in the process of verbalization in psychoanalysis. The kind of actions I will discuss is familiar to every analyst, who usually regards them as expressions of the repressed. In his case reports, and technique papers, Freud cited such actions and saw them in that light. (Freud, 1893–95, 1905, 1909a, 1909b, 1913, 1914, 1918). To mention but one example, he noticed that Dora repeatedly opened her handbag and put her finger in it during one of her analytic hours. Only a few days earlier, she had claimed she had no memories of masturbating in childhood. Freud concluded that Dora betrayed her secret in these actions (Freud, 1905).
A version of this paper was presented to the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, June 20, 1970.
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Mahl, G.F. (1977). Body Movement, Ideation, and Verbalization During Psychoanalysis. In: Freedman, N., Grand, S. (eds) Communicative Structures and Psychic Structures. The Downstate Series of Research in Psychiatry and Psychology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0492-1_13
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