1st Edition
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Toward a new transformational model of language
1 The contributions of Michel Bréal and Julia Kristeva to a psychoanalytic science of language
2 Recursion and metacognition
3 The psychoanalytic linguistics of Jean Piaget
4 Dreamwork: The precognitive formation of language
5 Speech errors and humor: in principio non erat verbum
6 Language, consciousness, and identity
7 Neuro-psychoanalysis
8 Language and mimesis
9 Language and mirror neurons
10 What is grammar?
11 The evolution of language in a psychoanalytic perspective
12 Metaphor and psychoanalysis
13 Psychoanalysis and linguistic relativity
Conclusion
Glossary of relevant psychoanalytic terms
Index
Biography
Thomas Paul Bonfiglio is Professor of Literature and Linguistics, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages, and Coordinator of the Linguistics program at the University of Richmond, USA. He has written a number of books, including The Psychopathology of American Capitalism; Why is English Literature?: Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century; Mother Tongues and Nations: The Invention of the Native Speaker; and Race and the Rise of Standard American.
