HELLER-Roazen (Daniel) – ECHOLALIES, an essay on the forgetting of languages
HELLER-Roazen (Daniel) – ECHOLALIES, an essay on the forgetting of languages
    HELLER-Roazen (Daniel)
    ECHOLALIES, an essay on the forgetting of languages
Date :
    2007
    , br., good condition, 292 p.
    The automatic repetition of words spoken by others: this is how scientists have defined, since the nineteenth century, the exceptional phenomenon known as echolalia, the study of which is said to fall under the purview of psychology. Without limiting himself to this medical definition, Daniel Heller-Roazen gives echolalia a new meaning, leading it to the point where it merges with the very concept of language. In short chapters, which are both fable and essay, a single thesis is put forward: every language is the echo of another, of which it constantly bears witness. More radically, every language is the echo of that childlike babble whose disappearance made speech possible. The demonstration is made here using diverse texts: mythology, psychoanalysis, theology, literature, and linguistics all play their part. From Ovid and Dante to Edgar Allan Poe and Elias Canetti, from the sacred languages ​​of Judaism and Islam to endangered dialects, from the mother tongue of poets to the dreamlike tongues of scholars, the twenty-one "echolalias" that make up this work trace a singular journey. A book that invites reflection on the nature of that forgetful animal, humankind, whose languages ​​are continually stolen from it by time.

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