Linguistics and Psychoanalysis
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Linguistics and Psychoanalysis

A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Linguistics and Psychoanalysis

A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution

About this book

This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.

Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms—such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition—have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Reexamining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching.

This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Toward a new transformational model of language
  8. 1 The contributions of Michel Bréal and Julia Kristeva to a psychoanalytic science of language
  9. 2 Recursion and metacognition
  10. 3 The psychoanalytic linguistics of Jean Piaget
  11. 4 Dreamwork: The precognitive formation of language
  12. 5 Speech errors and humor: In principio non erat verbum
  13. 6 Language, consciousness, and identity
  14. 7 Neuro-psychoanalysis
  15. 8 Language and mimesis
  16. 9 Language and mirror neurons
  17. 10 What is grammar?
  18. 11 The evolution of language in a psychoanalytic perspective
  19. 12 Metaphor and psychoanalysis
  20. 13 Psychoanalysis and linguistic relativity
  21. Conclusion
  22. Glossary of relevant psychoanalytic terms
  23. Index