LINGUIST List 22.3990 Wed Oct 12 2011 Media: Language and the Unconscious Editor for this issue: Brent Woo <bwoolinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Brent Woo , Language and the Unconscious Message 1: Language and the Unconscious Date: 12-Oct-2011 From: Brent Woo <bwoolinguistlist.org> Subject: Language and the Unconscious E-mail this message to a friend In a conversation with Ehsan Azari Stanizai discussing French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, the relationship of language to the (un)conscious is touched on. "...this unconscious is always producing its effect in these linguistic tropes and also in the gaps, and also in the lapses in our speaking, or in our written discourse, or in our spoken discourse; those things that we are not talking... when language fails to produce its effect as a communicative means, then that is the eruption of unconscious." Is this related to Chomsky's idea of E- and I-Language? Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ehsan-azari/lacan-western-philosophy-_b_988290.html Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science Psycholinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.