The Manifold Function of Singular Words
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21630256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart A Pizer (Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-334 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychoanalytic Dialogues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1048-1885 • E-ISSN: 1940-9222 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10481885.2026.2662838 |
| OpenAlex | W7161834260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In my discussion of this elegantly written, notably useful, and engagingly illustrated paper, I bring attention to Eugene Gendlin’s work on the Focusing process that connects words to a felt bodily referent; Donnel Stern’s contributions to our understanding of the articulation of unformulated experience; and Barbara Pizer’s key concept of “Body Words.” I invoke Hans Loewald’s valuable metaphor of a manifold: a connector that separates and a separator that connects, an essential paradox that can bridge delineation and linking. And, appreciating Heiman and Carmeli’s use of my early writing on negotiation of paradox, I end with the clinical vignette (never previously published) that accompanied my first presentation of that paper at a Division 39 Conference in 1990
Dialectic · Lexicalization · Metaphor · Polysemy · Vignette · Cellular Automata and Applications · Logic, programming, and type systems · semigroups and automata theory
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |