title: Things in words: Ferenczi and language.
abstract: Ferenczi defends the mimesis between words and things from the moment he enters the psychoanalytical movement. He emphasizes the sensitive dimension of language and the magical experience of words. This paper intends to view such use of language by contemporary patients in a non-pathologizing, constructive way, avoiding characterizing them as deficient in their capacity to symbolize and create metaphors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Postgraduate Studies in Social Memory, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jogondar@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Jô
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gondar
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D019365:Metaphor; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013561:Symbolism