Hans Sperber and Freud: the sexual origin of human language and psychoanalysis

In this paper the relationship between psychoanalysis, language and its sexual origins is discussed. The texts that give support to this approach are mainly Sperber (1912), which proposes that the human language (speech) origin and development depended upon primitive man's sexual moves and thei...

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Published in:Revista de estudos da linguagem Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 413 - 430
Main Author: de Mendonca Cohen, Maria Antonieta Amarante
Format: Journal Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: 01-07-2012
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Summary:In this paper the relationship between psychoanalysis, language and its sexual origins is discussed. The texts that give support to this approach are mainly Sperber (1912), which proposes that the human language (speech) origin and development depended upon primitive man's sexual moves and their expression in a prehistoric stage. Other texts are Freud's, in which he deals with language stricto sensu. Adapted from the source document
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ISSN:0104-0588