The Humanization through the genesis of language symbol

Abstract

This paper deals with the genesis of language, its discovery by man as the start of his history as a thinking being.
One considers that the crossing point of sign and symbol defines the human species as such. The development of language took place within the transcendental dimension originated in the fact of giving an object a name. This achievement and the remembering and making present the object “in absentia” opened a wide range of possibilities in the field of formulation and
expression of concepts. The fundamental act of thinking consists in symbolization, which leads to
generalization and synthesis. By interposing symbols as a bridge to new possibilities, man conquered the
inexhaustible world of fantasy, thus “winning over” death, loss, absence, since symbols overcome acting-thinking (on a concrete level). 1) — This paper shows the evolution of language in a female schizophrenic patient with a serious mutism. The process was followed at transference level where the use of acting-thought and later on meaning-thought could be observed. 2) — This paper shows also the nature of divergences or differences between what the patient had already acquired (integrating process) and what she could not acquire due to various causes interfering with development. This process was followed through serious regressive phenomenon in the transferential link. 3) — A “cataclysmal” condition appeared in the transferential relationship
between this schizophrenic patient and her analyst, much of the kind Bion described as premature, hasty and over-dependent. As a consequence, the establishment of a confusional condition over-flowed the analytical process. The
introjecting process never achieved firm introjects (links) for these were of an explosive, violent nature. The patient resorted to massive, explosive projection as well, through uncontrolled acting, screaming, crying, gesturing and the use of
word things. The question arises whether these patients lack the necessary potential to transmute sensations into symbols. One would think that instead of perceiving meanings they can only perceive “in the rough” data, symptoms of concrete,
practical work, but are unable to elaborate sensible experiences into a world for themselves. The analytical work then consists in filling the gap between the psychotic-asymbolic part of the personality and the non-psychotic one, through
the re-elaboration in the patient of the “pieces” so to say of their primary, concrete, thing-like links, feeding them with symbolic transmutation and separating them from “in se” objects. Some sessions show: 1) the patient’s passage from asymbolic-acting-thin-king to meaning-thinking. 2) the beginning of the use of symbol-words and the process of introjection of
objects. 3) the first breakings-up of identification-projection and the beginning of separation of subject-object. Later on the concepts of teleological intellection, introjected-assimilated object and word-symbol were developed. The patient reached this level through a long analytical work.