ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Hopi Language, Fire Marshal
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Would not have a sense of separateness if it were not for language. Concept of self is not entirely given by nature. Constructed in society by signs and language. Like colours and races, there is a continuum that language and signs construct as separate entities. Jacques lacan: french psychoanalyst, interpreted freud, self is linguistically constructed, i. e. Baby does not come into society with a sense of individual self. She lives in the real stage(people are not separate beings). With language, she learns the boundaries of things (symbolic stage world experienced as consisting of bounded units). We are both i and you to ourselves. The inner conversation, one party coaches the other. This coach is more influenced by society. The coach is related to freud s superego . Self is a conversation and it includes a representation of society. Language and other signifying systems constrain what we can imagine and communicate.