Derrida sees an affinity with Abraham and Torok's work in that they have modulated the Freudian "primal scene" into a linguistic and trans-phenomenal register--into primal words. The Wolf Man's neologisms proffer invaluable documents of this fundamental linguistic resistance to the analyst's endeavor of constructing a definitive narrative in order to unfurl and lay bare the secret (Derrida, 64-6). Unlike the Derridian project Abraham and Torok attempt to salvage a Freudian notion of the primal scene: for them there is a primal scene, but it does not fall at the origin.