Raymond de Saussure’s Freudian appropriation of Antoine Meillet’s historical and general linguistics

This item contains a heretofore completely overlooked text published in 1922 by Raymond de Saussure, a major figure in the development of psychoanalyis in France, whose father Ferdinand was the founder of modern linguistics. It is a review of a 1921 collection of articles by Ferdinand's student and confidant Antoine Meillet, head of the Paris School of linguistics, published in the Freudian journal Imago. Raymond uses some of Meillet's findings to mount a defense of Freud's treatment of symbols against the opposing treatment by Jung, which had just created a sensation with the publication of Jung's Psychological Types (1921). Included here are both the original German text of Raymond de Saussure's review and a new English translation of it.