Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures - Softcover

Amir, Dana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782200428 ISBN 13: 9781782200420

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book is an attempt to analyse psychic language and its diverse modes of expression, both within psychic structure and in the interpersonal realm. It begins by looking at two basic forms of delay in the development of psychic language: concrete language, which is based on flattening, and pseudo-language, which is rooted in concealment. The next chapter focuses on the split between voice and meaning which marks psychotic syntax, and the latter's double function in defending the self against an unconscious death wish. The subject of the third chapter is the chameleon language of perversion, and the relationship between the perverse structure and the primal scene. This chapter is followed by one that suggests understanding autistic syntax as an inverse use of the psychic musical 'organ point'. The fifth chapter discusses the absent function of the inner witness in traumatic language. The sixth chapter discusses psychosomatic language through the distinction between metaphorical, metonymical and psychotic bodily expressions.

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Dana Amir

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782200428
• ISBN 13: 9781782200420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174