Abstract

In psychoanalysis, modernity was born of a renewed concept of writing, brought to light by Freud and inseparable from repression, which he made a fully-fledged notion of his metapsychology. Freud was, if not the first, at least one of the first to highlight the structural link between writing and repression. Discovering the hypothesis of the unconscious and founding psychoanalysis, Freud invented a new relationship with writing and the written word: this involved the discovery of dream writing and the place of his own writing in the discovery and transmission of psychoanalysis