Cleft Tongue : the Language of Psychic Structures.

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-...

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Main Author: Amir, Dana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Karnac Books, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE From mother-tongue to language; CHAPTER TWO The split between voice and meaning: the dual function of psychotic syntax; CHAPTER THREE The chameleon language of perversion; CHAPTER FOUR The psychic organ point of autistic syntax; CHAPTER FIVE The inner witness; CHAPTER SIX Nausea as the refusal of a mother tongue:the psychosomatic, metaphoric, metonymic, and psychotic expression; EPILOGUE Interpretation and over-interpretation; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.