Linguistics and Psychoanalysis

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Toward a new transformational model of language1 The contributions of Michel Bréal and Julia Kristeva to a psychoanalytic science of language2 Recursion and metacognition3 The psychoanalytic linguistics of Jean Piaget4 Dreamwork: The precognitive formation of language5 Speech errors and humor: in principio non erat verbum6 Language, consciousness, and identity7 Neuro-psychoanalysis8 Language and mimesis9 Language and mirror neurons10 What is grammar?11 The evolution of language in a psychoanalytic perspective12 Metaphor and psychoanalysis13 Psychoanalysis and linguistic relativityConclusionGlossary of relevant psychoanalytic termsIndex

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