Maria Torok

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Maria Torok (1926–1998) was a Hungarian-French psychoanalyst. Torok is best known for her idiosyncratic contributions to psychoanalytic theory, many coauthored with Nicolas Abraham. Her works, both alone and with Abraham, developed the idea of cryptonymy, suggesting that anagrams, homophones, rhymes, puns and other word and sound plays expressed certain patients' unconscious desires, circumventing the mind's linguistic censorship. Her works in English translation include The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy and The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis.

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