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The uncanny power of words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Paul J. M. Jorion
Paul J. M. Jorion
Affiliation:
Théorie et Praxis, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 75270 Cedex 06, Paris [email protected] aris.ss.uci.edu/~jorion
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Abstract

In their quality as acoustic or visual percepts, words are linked to the emotional values of the state-of-affairs they evoke. This allows them to engender meanings capable of operating nearly entirely detached from percepts. Such a laying flat of meanings permits deliberation to take place within the window of consciousness. In such a theatre of the imagination, linguistically triggered, resides the originality of the human psyche.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 622 - 623
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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