Sobre a afiliação do vocabulário freudiano ao vocabulário da neurologia: o caso da Übertragung

This article addresses the transition from neurology to psychoanalysis in Freud’s work through a historical-conceptual analysis of his vocabulary. First, we note words essential to Freudian theory in neurological texts, namely Übertragung, Erregung and Reiz. Then, comparing the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) with The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), we observe the permanence of neurological terms in Freud’s psychoanalytic vocabulary, but this involves a series of lexical shifts: in psychoanalysis, neurophysiological terms maintain their functionalist meaning, rather than their anatomical one, which marks the epistemological specificity of Freud’s scientific enterprise.