Parasitic Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9232199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dana Amir (0000-0002-1574-5844, 54 Sderot Hanassi Street, Haifa, 3464316 Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 527-547 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00332828.2020.1773128 |
| PMID | 35312405 |
| OpenAlex | W4207021725 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper presents initial thoughts about the phenomenon of parasitic language. This is a language which clings to the other's linguistic patterns and in doing so produces a double manifestation of omnipotence and impotence; a language that forges a linguistic "prosthesis," and while allowing for a false manifestation of language and thinking, constitutes thoughts as foreign objects that are mechanically and artificially "stuck" to the speaking subject. The early roots of this language, as illustrated in a detailed analytical case description, inhere in the infiltration of language by multi-generational traumatic traces. This turns language itself into a scene of simultaneous repetition of the act of salvation and the act of annihilation
Comprehension approach · Epistemology · Linguistics · Natural language · Omnipotence · Phenomenon · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Sociology of language · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |