Colonisation and language
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article proposes an approach between psychoanalysis and decolonial thinking to reflect upon the psychic effects of the process of banning the use and subsequent extinction of the mother languages of original and diasporic peoples in places marked by assimilationist colonisation policies and possible resistance strategies, given this specific type of colonial violence. Starting from the Lacanian premise that the unconscious is structured like a language, we seek to investigate the psychic consequences of the erasure of thousands of original languages from diasporic peoples and the imposition of a Western monolanguage. Then, through Lacan’s final teaching and the concept of lalangue, we observe, in a singular field, through a clinical vignette, the invention of the unconscious subject as a response to language colonisation.
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W4404580324