Psicoanalisi, metafora, origine del linguaggio
- Autores: Giampaolo Sasso
- Localización: Moderna: semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura, ISSN 1128-6326, Vol. 24, Nº. 1-2, 2022, págs. 149-183
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
Psychoanalysis, Metaphor, the Origin of Language. The author aims at demonstrating that language in the human species originates from the enormous inheritance of states of consciousness from animal evolution, which at birth constitute a fluid bundle of states of consciousness due to the child’s cerebral immaturity. During the learning of words the bundle of linguistic states of consciousness, together with their grammatical and syntactic processing, differentiates from this fluid bundle. According to this development, the processing of the fluid bundle characterises our thinking, while that of the linguistic bundle characterises the possibilities of its expression in language. The metaphor can be explained through the amount of fluid states of consciousness that do not become part of the linguistic bundle, but remain available in language to express thought processing. The paper illustrates with many examples how metaphorical processes act as a natural and necessary connection between the two bundles, complementing the translatability of thought in language. The study of certain psychoanalytic metaphors in Freud and Jung illustrates their particular functions in supporting and clarifying the fundamental concepts of their respective theories.
