Consciousness, Language, and Self - Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind (Hardcover)

Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The "mother tongue," the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero and our second language, reflective symbolic thought, begins in infancy. Michael Robbins describes the respective roles the two conscious mental processes and their particular use of language play in the course of normal and pathological development, as well as the role the language of primordial consciousness plays in adult life in such phenomena as dreaming, infant-caregiver attachment, creativity, belief systems and their effects on social and political life, cultural differences, and psychosis. Examples include creative persons, extreme political figures and psychotic individuals. Five original essays, written by the author's current and former patients, describe what they learned about their aberrant uses of language and their origins. This book sheds new light on several controversies that have been limited by the incorrect assumption that reflective representational thought and its language is the only conscious mental state. These include the debate within linguistics about whether language is the expression of a hardwired instinct whose identifying feature is recursion; within psychoanalysis about the nature of conscious and unconscious mental processes, and within cognitive philosophy about whether language and thought are isomorphic. Consciousness, Language, and Self will be of great value to psychoanalysts, as well as students and scholars of linguistics, cognitive philosophy and cultural anthropology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Michael Robbins
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	166
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-48763-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	1-138-48763-5
Barcode:	9781138487635

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