A freudian symptom

Abstract

The development of psychoanalytic therapy owns much to the constant auto-analysis of his founder. We study, with the help of a childhood recollection of Freud, a repeated symptom. He has a particular difficulty to make some trips and to reach his final destination, especially when it had to do with a destination with a particular symbolic meaning for him. His auto-analysis leads him to elaborate the difficulties that he has concerning the father. The following lacanian articulation concerning the father as a consequence of the discourse will lead the psychoanalytic theory beyond the oedipal complex with considerable consequence for the psychoanalytic practice.