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Freud, Piaget, and Jargon, Part II

 Yesterday, I discussed a certain passage in Anna Aragno's contribution to an anthology about Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem,  a book published by Routledge last year.  I'd like to discuss something that bugs me about that contribution a bit more here.  Aragno has written the book's chapter nine, entitled "A Revised Psychoanalytic Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity." The essay begins with a quote from Freud dated 1937, "For in the psychical field, the biological field does in fact play the part of the underlying bedrock." That sentence does support Aragno's general argument, as I laid it out yesterday. It supports it so conveniently that I naturally want to pursue the matter.  Unfortunately, the source of that quote is not obvious. Aragno's endnotes reference five works of Freud, none of which was published (or translated into English) in 1937. So she has created a bit of a mystery.  Googling the quote got me no res...