Book Review: The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension.

Mehler, Jacqueline Amati; Argentieri, Simona; Canestri, Jorge; Jappe, Gemma

doi:10.1177/000306519304100325

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“…Such a process is rooted in language, in particular in the emotional tone of the maternal voice which the child acquires before the semantic meaning that it conveys. It gives to the mother's speech a privileged access to feelings (Amati Mehler et al, 1993). The maternal voice can be considered as a metaphorical area of exchange in which very primitive processes of projection and introjection take place.…”

Section: Therapeutic Functions and Work On Memorymentioning

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Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis)

Mancia¹

2006

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

125

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The author discusses memory from the point of view of the neurosciences and molecular biology, proposing an integration with the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious. The discovery of the implicit memory has extended the concept of the unconscious and supports the hypothesis that this is where the emotional and affective--sometimes traumatic--presymbolic and preverbal experiences of the primary mother-infant relations are stored. They could form the ground structure of an early unrepressed unconscious nucleus of the self. Identifying the unconscious with the memory leads to a theory about its morpho-functional organization. The unrepressed unconscious can be brought to the surface in analysis through the 'musical dimension' of the transference, characterized by the voice (its intonation and rhythm) and the prosody of the language. Dreams can symbolically transform pre-symbolic and preverbal experiences, so that they can be put into words and thought about even without their recollection. Dreams can also create images to fi ll the gap of the absence of representation which characterize the unrepressed unconscious. The description of a segment of analysis of a patient suffering from death anxiety provides a clinical illustration of the theories discussed. The interpretation of her voice and of the prosody of her language, besides the work on dreams, reproduced the emotional essence of the analysand's traumatic childhood experiences. This reconstruction enabled her to speak and think about them even without the actual recollection.

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Section: Therapeutic Functions and Work On Memorymentioning

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Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis)

Mancia¹

2006

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

125

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“…Certain languages and ways of speaking dominate in specific biographic moments, others lose relevance, or are abandoned. Emotional and embodied language experience (Busch forthcoming) is decisive, but also the problem of recognition or exclusion based on language, and how linguistic power or powerlessness is experienced and processed (Amati-Mehler et al 1993;Lüdtke 2011).…”

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“Here I find myself to be judged”: ELF/plurilingual perspectives on language analysis for the determination of origin

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Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

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“…e.g. Amati Mehler et al, 1993;Flegenheimer, 1989;Greenson, 1950;Javier, 1995;Javier et al, 1993;Perdigao, 2010). The subjective being addressed by the psychoanalyst and by psychoanalytical concepts depends, for one thing, on whether the patient (and here we can envisage Freud's reader too) is hearing his native language or a foreign language and, for another, on whether he himself is speaking his native language or a second language acquired later.…”

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“…If language is the web in which we capture internal as well as external reality, then it is directly dependent on our external as well as our interiorized object relations, expressed in everyday language as life circumstances (Amati Mehler et al, 1993;Goldschmidt, 1988;Perdigao, 2010). This is a fact confirmed many times over, particularly in developmental psychology terms.…”

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When Freud headed for the East: Aspects of a Chinese translation of his works

Plaenkers¹

2013

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Working on the basis of a resumé of the Chinese translations to date of individual works by Sigmund Freud and critiques of these as secondary translations from the English, the particular difficulties of translating into a non-Indo-European language with an isolating and analytical writing system are presented. By way of introduction, reference is made to English and French-language contributions to the issues of translation.

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Book Review: The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension.

Cited by 11 publications

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Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis)

Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis)

“Here I find myself to be judged”: ELF/plurilingual perspectives on language analysis for the determination of origin

When Freud headed for the East: Aspects of a Chinese translation of his works

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