The Creation of the Self and Language
Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World
- Book Description
This book develops models and hypotheses about the mechanisms of the origin of language and the self. It offers a highly original discussion of language acquisition in relation to Freud’s paper on aphasia. The book is useful for psychiatrists, teachers, social workers, and parents.
- Table of Contents
Foreword — the Autistic Child — Introduction — Revisiting Freud from the standpoint of his writings on aphasia — Some modern psychoanalytic theories on autism — The child’s relationship with the Other and with language: some concepts of Merleau-Ponty and Henri Wallon — Benjamin — Testimonies — Transformation
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